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Spinnerproof
By Sam Hutchins and Ryan BratleyTechnology
Spinnerproof episodes
- 31: Premium Buttons
- Follow up
- Ryan got things wrong
- Bulky feeder wedges aren’t all that common on HW drums
- Xiake and Spin Doctor are rare exceptions
- Vanquish appears set to appear again this season
- Front Matter: technology is bad edition
- Elon Musk vs the press
- Elon doesn’t like criticism
- Elon wants us to rank press outlets: 1, 2, 3
- Amazon Echo privacy failure
- Church of England’s prayer feature
- Apple ejected Sam’s favourite app
- Battlebots, Episode 3
- Another very good episode
- Overhaul vs Sawblaze
- Overhaul
- Sam thinks Overhaul is ugly
- Many invisible improvements to Overhaul, as chronicled in Charles Guan’s superb build-log
- SawBlaze
- Green flames!
- A saw!
- Trash talk!
- Sawblaze’s saw really, really works
- Where does Overhul fit within the meta?
- Decent anti-spinner setups
- Whiplash vs Hypothermia
- Whiplash
- Versatile weapon rather than a particularly powerful weapon
- Hypothermia
- Very neat lifter mechanism
- Option of a much more defensive plough
- Posibly more robust than this fight would make it seem
- Wonderful overhead hits from Whiplash
- Four Horsemen vs Double Jeopardy vs Gamma 9
- Four Horsemen
- From Ian Watts and the team that created The Swarm and The Grubs
- Double Jeopardy
- From the team that brought us the unreasonably robust and effective Troublemaker at Robogames, among other machines.
- The quick build means the weapon is much heavier than it could potentially be, hence the very weak armour
- Gamma 9
- From the team that brought us the largely ineffective but uneniably creative walker Gammatron
- The dome is an aesthetic throwback to the original machines
- Double Jeopardy’s AMA revealed that the cannon did serious damage to Gamma 9
- Judges’ decision shenanigens
- Was it a knockout for Gamma 9?
- Under Battlebots’ double knockout rules, this fight goes to the judges anyway as it lasted more than 60 seconds
- WarHawk vs Axe Backwards
- Warhawk
- A standard but well excecuted spinner design
- Axe Backwards
- Full. Body. Drum.
- Extremely robust drum
- Less robust everythng else
- Sam doesn’t understand the cultural importance of the primary weapon meme
- Nuts 3 for Battlebots 2019?
- #NutsAcrossThePond
- Hypershock vs Biteforce
- Hypershock
- Possibly the best looking robot ever made
- Rock ship from FTL
- Hypershock toy when?
- Biteforce
- Still an unispiring design, but immensely powerful
- Faruq jingle when?
- Hypershock evidently in trouble from the very start
- EM drive
- P H Y S I C S
- Good explanations of EM drive are hard to find
- Ryan is wrong about the device being open ended
- Bonus after aftershow
1 hr 21 min - 30: Compensating for Something
- Follow up
- Minotaur’s wedge
- ‘True’ feeder wedges
- Front matter
- Upcoming competitions
- KoB 2
- Bugglebots (Beetleweight webseries)
- Website
- Twitter
- Facebook
- YouTube
- Upcoming livestream
- 26th May at 7PM BST
- THIS TIME in your timezone
- Ryan forgets that this IS episode 30
- Battlebots
- Many memorable moments
- Short fights = more fluff?
- Superb cold open
- ICEwave vs Vanquish
- ICEwave
- Other petrol engines in robot combat?
- Vanquish
- Seemingly a robust wedge
- Very well driven
- Build diary
- Tweedy’s AMA responses seem to indicate Vanquish WILL be back
- Repair time
- 360 cameras
- The camera
- Example video
- RotatoR vs Petunia
- RotatoR
- Splitting weight between two spinners
- Impacts which slow one disc don’t slow the other
- Petunia
- Faruq justifies his existence
- Sam fails to realise that the tweet comes after the publication of the episode
- Sam is…disappointed…by the weapon
- A slightly unusual crusher design
- More Androne than Razer
- Broken beak tip
- Brutus vs Red Devil
- Brutus
- Standard vertical spinner
- Serious electrical issues
- Minor commentary shenanigens
- Red Devil
- The wedge is a good choice, but not classic Red Devil
- Has the tight timeframe reduced the showmanship of some teams?
- Pinning/grappling rules
- Unsticking
- Captain Shredderator vs End Game
- Captain Shredderator
- Dated internals
- Tiger Claw is competing in TiFR
- Dat transmitter
- End Game
- FMB champions
- Ryan was grossly mis-remembering this title fight vs DiotAwe
- Rough floor issues
- Yeti vs Witch Doctor
- Yeti
- One big robot
- Apparently has a set of wedge forks, whatever that may mean
- Witch Doctor
- Post-fight report
- Why do motors overheat?
- Cooling on an ESC
- An underwhelming matchup?
- Ryan’s list of acceptable verticals:
- Hypershock, Monsoon, Yeti, HUGE, End Game, Sharkoprion, Whiplash
- At least 50% of the vertical spinners in the field…
- The new Reddit layout(s)
- A conversation predicated on Ryan not having realised there are 3 versions of the layout
- Mobile-style ‘cards’
- ‘Classic’
- Compact
1 hr 10 min - 29: episode29.mp3
- Followup
- Sam was inconsistent
- Ryan got more things wrong about Predator
- Predator and Foxic, together in perfect harmony
- Robogames livestream
- Accompanying Twitch VOD
- Upcoming livestream: 26th May 2018 at 7pm UK time (BST)
- Ryan’s libellous angry front matter
- Plagiarism
- Firefox
- WEdgE FlIppErS aRE AlL THe sAmE!!
- ‘Soaring Shell’
- Visual comparison with similarities highlighted
- Vulcan vs Terrorhurtz
- ‘Carnage’
- Volvo flywheel thing
- Clarification: the reason the team’s inability to give basic stats on the weapon concerns me is that - by my admittedly limited understanding - without that information they have no way of knowing how much energy the weapon can impart and, without that knowledge, they can’t know if the safety measures they have put in place are sufficient. - Ryan
- Battlebots
- All new format
- Hand-picked matchups, leading into a final 16 bracket
- Technically a form of swiss draw?
- Alternates
- Since recording, we have learned that alternates are guaranteed at least one fight, in which they may fight non-alternates, with the potential to be ‘promoted’ to the main competition if they impress. It appears that the main difference between an alternate and non-alternate is largely administrative in that non-alternates are guaranteed more fights and may get different financial compensation.
- Rule changes
- Tip speed nerf
- New judging criteria
- Editing and presentation
- Slightly rough camerawork
- Slimmed-down presenting team
- Significantly higher pace
- More important role for Faruq
- Slightly over-zealous sound effects
- Blacksmith vs Biteforce
- Blacksmith
- Industrial aesthetic
- Low on power, but tenacious and spectacular
- Deadblow
- Biteforce
- Still scarred from 2016?
- Ineffective wedge?
- Mecha Rampage vs Free Shipping vs Duck!
- Mecha Rampage
- Too wide?
- 50% of the mass is in the weapon section
- Free Shipping
- Original Sin
- Not only reigning RoboGames champion, but on the podium almost every year
- Duck!
- Billet bot
- Ti or Al? Al
- Sam wants more expensive robots
- Whoops vs Last Rites
- Facebook comments…
- ‘Just’ a box?
- An excellent choice of rumble - 3 incredibly experienced builders/drivers
- How do you judge a rumble?
- SubZero vs HUGE
- Subzero
- Old SubZero vs new SubZero
- Too much adaptation for the opponent?
- Huge
- How do you deal with HUGE?
- Lack of traction
- Sam finally realises the Hellraisers are a thing
- Computer-controlled hazards
- Bombshell vs Lockjaw
- Bombshell
- No longer a swiss-army bot
- Lockjaw
- Now a vertical spinner
- Although rumour has it the jaws are still an option
- Is it a disc? No.
- Commendable acts of sportsmanship
- Tombstone vs Minotaur
- There are no words capable of doing this fight justice
- A disappointing end?
- Major damage to both machines: twisted/broken frame for Tombstone and huge armour damage for Minotaur
- More than 30 hits
- Extremely thick aluminium evidently works well
- Severe arena damage
1 hr 42 min - 28: A Backpack Full of Legs
- Followup
- Predator - the real one
- TV shows around the world
- KFC Death Camps Clash Bots
- Sam can’t bear to watch it
- Ryan’s life is hollow and meaningless so he watches it anyway
- The Bill Podcast - a ‘The Bill’ podcast - this is not an endorsement of this podcast
- Soggy Bottoms - a ‘Great British Bakeoff’ podcast - also not an endorsement
- This is Fighting Robots (KoB 1.5)
- Sam can’t bear to watch it
- Ryan’s life is hollow and meaningless so he watches it anyway
- Intrusive editing
- Feel free to speculate about Sam’s taste in vloggers in the comments
- Since recording, a ‘VIP’ episode has come out featuring better edits of all fights
- Battlebots debuts May 11th!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Trailer
- More trailers (UK only)
- Robot combat in Hollywood
- Spoilers, duh…
- Big Hero 6
- The scene
- The perfect multibot
- High-level controls?
- Is Batman a Superhero?
- In which Sam expects Ryan to be consistent somehow
- Pacific Rim
- Massive robots fighting monsters
- “Tanks and stuff” - the only logical approach to war, apparently
- “ELBOW ROCKET!!!”
- Crimson Typhoon - the three-armed Jaeger
- In-universe explanation of the ‘drift’ mind melding process
- Real Steel
- Quite big robots boxing other quite big robots
- Atom: Basically Gabriel
- Shadow mode - the robot mirrors the action of a human controller simply by watching them
- Liver punches
- Robot Combat League
- Megabots
- Pretty much out of money and out of ideas
1 hr 27 min - 27: The Best Thing You Can Do
- Pre-show waffle
- Tray with feet
- Note to self: set up Amazon Affiliate link…
- Autonomous cars
- Robot or Not?
- Uber crash - for those who have been living under a rock
- STUDIES!!
- How a driverless car sees the road (ft. a rogue duck)
- Correction: Google’s cars are currently maxxing out at Level 4 autonomy: Level 5 requires the ability to go anywhere whereas the current generation of car can only drive on pre-mapped roads.
- Battlebots
- Essentially confirmed entrants
- Chomp
- Level 1 autonomy
- Hammer test - now with ___% more wobble
- Bronco
- Lucky
- SubZero
- Minotaur
- Bombshell
- Tombstone
- Gigabyte (ft. unsafe testing practices)
- Red Devil
- Hypershock
- Yeti
- Team Danby: Predator
- More old Biteforce than Overhaul
- Team Tauron/DRT: Monsoon
- “Let’s move onto robots - I know what I’m talking about with those” (Ryan, 2018)
- Team Nebula: Vanquish
- Team PCP: Petunia
- Multiple teams: Reality
- “My robot knowledge is really letting me down today” (Also Ryan, 2018)
- Oh Yes Robotics: End Game
- Helpful infographic
- HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE
- Not mentioend but highly noteworthy: Team Toad entering a new machine, Hypothermia
- Full list of confirmed entries on reddit or on Google docs
- King of Bots 1.5 (This is Fighting Robots)
- Blue
- Megabyte
- Vulcan
- Great White
- An Ellis Ware heavyweight
- CJ
- Tanshe
- Weber
- Griffon
- Thunder & Lightning
- Unknown returning team
- Snake
- Grill Judge/Two BBQ
- Sabre
- Specrte
- 008
- Formula
- Tungsten
- Fango
- Breaker Box
- Bonesaw
- SAT’arn Saturn
- Dragon King
- Bonfire
- Full list of confirmed entries on reddit or on Google docs
- Depression & anxiety
- Sam’s ‘year of health’
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Resources
- Depression overview
- Ryan’s feature for Mental Health Awareness Week 2017
- Helping yourself
- Self-care guide
- Coping with suicidal thoughts
- Helping others
- “What to say” from makeitok.org
- Samaritans’ guide to ‘difficult conversations’
- Index of Mental Health helplines (UK)
- Gratuitous dog video
2 hr 9 min - 26: Alan
- SPAAAAAACE
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Reusable-ier, powerful-ier, space-ier
- Bad news…
- Robot Wars didn’t fail, the BBC failed Robot Wars
- Can Robot Wars work off of the BBC?
- At least we have KoB and new Battlebots, right?
- KoB: the final 8
- Ryan’s confession
- Episode 7
- Spin Doctor vs Megabyte
- Spin Doctor: officially not cowards
- Ryan makes another midguided sporting analogy
- Spectre vs Grill Judge
- Razer vs Tornado 3.0
- Great White vs That Which Shall Not Be Spelled
- Rules are rules, and these rules are dumb
- Ellis speaks, and he is visibly annoyed
- Snake vs Thunder & Lightning
- ‘Ave they got a SRiMech?
- Multibot immobility rules
- Judging a multibot
- 2v2 exhibitions
- Snake & Sabre vs Vulcan & Tanshe
- Shuffle the drivers
- 4WD on flippers
- Rust Boar & Wild Beast vs Spin Doctor & Geat White
- Mayhem and two drones
- LiPo smoke: not a good kind of smoke
- Episode 8
- CJ vs Megabyte
- Some robots just will not die
- Thunder & Lightning vs Spectre
- Spectre-cle. heh.
- Perfect robots?
- 3rd place playoff: Thunder & Lightning vs Megabyte
- T&L with the wedge, Megabyte with the old steel shell
- RUUUUUMBLEEEEEE
- Grand Final: Spectre vs CJ
- “Some kind of beetle”
- Final thoughts
- Watching a foreign language programme
- RobotRevo
1 hr 28 min - 25: Am I Weird?
- Follow up
- Garfie explains how polycarbonate breaks
- How much of a robot could be weapon?
- Drum definitions
- King of Bots - Round of 16
- Tanshe vs Great White
- New Blue
- Doomba
- Sam’s final 8 predictions
- Ryan’s final 8 predictions
- Grill Judge vs Blue
- Omnidrive’s limitations
- Grill Judge’s ground clearance
- Judge’s decision
- Spin Doctor vs Crossfire
- The most traction-reliant robot since Gabriel
- Tastes Like Burning
- Spectre vs Wild Beast
- Phwoarrrrr
- Megabyte vs Raging Bull
- Thunder & Lightning vs Sabre
- Skinny flippers
- Going back on predictions
- Knife Legend vs Rust Boar
- Ray Billings’ box posture
- Titanium welding is hard
- Chinese adverts
- OOZY BALLS!
- Rust Boar retires
- Snake vs the robot whose name Ryan now refuses to attempt writing
- Snake’s weapon system
- Can it lift and hold?
- The final 8
- Qualitative predictions
- Aftershow: SpaceX fairing recovery
- Fairings
- Reportedly up to $5million each
- Weird net boat thing
- Intact fairing after splashdown
1 hr 49 min - 24: Live Scene Low-down
- Gareth Anstee
- Dystopia
- Trolley Rage
- General d’Meaner
- Utopia
- Defector
- RPM
- Dystopiant
- Defectant
- Heavyweights
- Events
- Extreme Robots
- Robots Live!
- Mechatrons
- Rules
- FRA Rules
- Spinners
- Robots Live! - spinners cannot exceed any two of the following:
- 20% of robot’s weight
- 500 RPM
- 500mm diameter
- Extreme Robots - up to 125mph tip speed
- Robot Wars - up to 250mph tip speed
- Judging
- Knockouts
- Returning from an OotA
- Escaping the pit
- Format
- No fixed format
- UK Championsip: melees into knockout
- For the audience
- ~9 fights per show, plus side events
- Seriousness of the fights depends on the individual event
- Recogniseable names/faces
- Manta
- Other weight classes
- Antweights
- Antweight World Series
- Beetleweights & Featherweights
- Standalone tournaments & side events
- UWE Beetle Brawl
1 hr 4 min - 23: Two Dimensional Drum Design
- Follow-up
- VR in the classroom?
- VR is the classroom?
- Front matter
- Battlebots is Backlebots
- Filming late March/early April
- ~250mph tip speed limit
- Why is tip speed limited, not energy?
- Sam pulls random numbers out of thin air to support a point which doesn’t really need figures
- Antweight progress
- Sam’s 4WD drivetrain
- Armour materials
- Sam’s driving woes
- King of Bots
- Hazards
- Floor flippers
- ‘Smoke Your Enemy’
- Episode 4
- Spectre vs Whirlwind
- Flawless victory
- Except the bit where they lost a tyre
- Single tooth setup confirmed?
- Tanshe vs Hammerhead Shark
- Ryan doesn’t know the difference between anterior and posterior
- Legitimate drama
- Grill judge vs Crossbow & Shield
- Rust Boar vs Blade Gyro
- WALL OP
- Blue vs DangerThunderZoneStorm
- Sabre vs The Grubs
- Sam’s Secret Spinner Scheme
- Beetleweight spinner setup
- Antweight spinner failure
- Episode 5
- Hunting Winds vs Great White
- Megabyte vs Chiyung Jinlun
- Snake vs Suspension
- Battle of the ground clearances
- Residual Wind vs Wild Beast
- Residual Wind in ‘invertible mode’
- Knife Legend vs Moments, Thunder & Lightning vs Ninja General
- Fights which will go down in history as having taken place
- Wildcards
- Round of 16 draw
- Aftershow: Falcon Heavy
- Mission overview
- Misleading animation
- Full 34 minute launch ’livestream’ VOD
- Liftoff
- Booster separation
- Main core separation
- Fairing deployment
- Booster landing
- Superb Smarter Every Day video with HQ sound from the launch
2 hr 19 min - 22: East Wind
- Follow up
- Ryan reflects on the Antweight segment
- Musings on teaching techniques
- “Back in my day…” - Ryan, an old man
- Garfie489’s comment on the barrier to entry
- Sam’s not a teacher, did you know?
- King of Bots
- RobotRevo on Twitch
- K.O.B as compared to other televised competitions
- Episode 1
- Stingray vs Megabyte
- Vulcan vs Excalibur (AKA Sabre)
- “Armoured Steel Fist” vs Snake
- Great Crossbow & Steel Shield vs Zhuge
- White Tiger vs Red Lion
- Spectre vs Hawk Hunter
- Crazy (AKA Residual Wind) vs Old Captain (AKA Sea Dog?)
- Episode 2
- Steel God of War vs Thunder & Lightning
- Spin Doctor vs Great White
- Tanshe vs Dark Knight
- Half ‘A’ press
- Hammerhead Shark vs Shadow Ring Blade (AKA Hurricane Tony)
- Ninja General vs Flaming Wheel
- Thunderstorm (AKA Danger Zone) vs Burning Twin Stars
- Extreme vs Rust Boar
- Ring of China vs Grill Judge
- Episode 3
- Raging Bull vs Blue
- Suspension vs Wu(?)
- The descent into madness begins
- Shou Shou (AKA Moments) vs Griffin (AKA Uncle Tom)
- Dragon Warrior vs Knight (AKA Shaku)
- ‘Guardian of Swire’ vs Whirlwind
- Blade Gyro vs Scorpion
- Alpha vs Alchemist (AKA Hunting Winds)
- The Grubs vs Crossfire
- Ink Thorns (AKA ‘Spit’) vs Moor
1 hr 34 min
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Spinnerproof is a podcast about combat robotics