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Spinnerproof
By Sam Hutchins and Ryan BratleyTechnology
Spinnerproof episodes
- 21: Down the Rabid Hole
- Follow-up
- The Lost Episodes
- Episode 19: in which we discuss how a love of Robot Wars and Lego can intertwine beautifully
- Episode 20: in we save Robot Wars but dismantle Star Wars
- Antweights
- Nuts & Bots
- NanoTwo ESC
- Ryan is very wrong about transmitter protocols
- Paper rocket model plans
- The International Specials
- NEGATIVITY WARNING
- Format & Production
- Tag-team battles
- Battle music
- Sound effects
- Captains
- International robot logistics
- Episode 1
- ‘Diotoir’
- ‘Too safe’
- Added wheelguards
- ‘Rabid M8’
- Active weaponry?
- Cobra
- Dividing opinion
- Active weaponry?
- TMHWK
- Previous owners?
- Axe woes
- Thor’s bent Axe-head
- Apollo vs Sir K
- Size matters
- Judges’ Segments
- Sethu’s wearable tech
- Security implications of the Internet of Things
- Noel’s antweights
- Ryan is still too angry to write useful notes about this
- Great antweight resources:
- Alex Shakespeare’s antweight care instructions
- RobotWars101 Forum
- Antweight Robot Facebook group
- Rory Mangles’ recommended antweight parts
- Robot Wars website
- Episode 2
- The Bash
- Youtube build videos
- The BBC unfairly raising expectations?
- Tough as Nails
- Weber
- “No armour”
- 40kg underweight
- Cathard
- Slightly more than ‘just a loaner-bot’
- The tag-team incident
- Concussion AMA - in which Ryan forgot to ask the question…
- A victim of entanglement
- Terror Turtle
- A participant
- Matilda vs Big Nipper
- Dead Metal’s saw vs Concussion’s drum
- Aftershow: The Last Jedi - follow-up
- SPOILERS
1 hr 47 min - 20: The Puffin Problem
- Elon Musk’s Heavy Erection
- Hype forecast: Moderate-High
- Falcon Heavy (propaganda warning)
- Sam tolerates the ill-informed ramblings of a man who knows a very limited amount about spaceflight
- Upcoming specials
- Which aired before we released this podcast…
- Ryan saves Robot Wars televised robot combat
- Ultimate Beastmaster but WITH ROBOTS
- Since recording we have learned that KOB will start airing in early January and seen a trailer with English commentary.
- Almost 90 minutes of talking about Star Wars
- Is Star Wars Sci-Fi?
- No.
- Randall Munroe on things moving near the speed of light
- Dreadnaut
- Dreadnought (spoilers)
- W I D E B O I
- W I D E B O I (spoilers)
1 hr 52 min - 19: Teaching Millennials How Cruel the World is
- Follow up
- Series 10 reflections
- Whimsy
- Format
- Ryan and Sam make each other sound like dysfunctional hermits
- Editing
- Ten robot rumble: extended cut
- Ratings
- No, not those ratings…
- International specials
- COMPETITOR SPOILERS! Skip to 12 mins to avoid!
- The last set of ‘specials’ and why they sucked
- LEGO Robot Wars
- An episode. There are many. Watch them. All of them
- Remote controlled LEGO used right
- Almost every weapon type
- Homemade arena
- Higher production values than Robot Wars: Grand Champions
- Ryan & Sam’s childhood robot building safari
- Sam wins…with parental help
- LEGO Mindstorms
- Programming a sentry gun
- Editorial note: that’s not proper LEGO and you know it
- Learning to code?
- LEGO Mindstorms’ programming interface
- Scratch
- For context, Sam is a software developer. WHO KNEW?
- Creating mechanisms
- Rack and Pinion steering
- Differentials - they’re magic
- ‘Walkers’
- Ryan is a LEGO hipster
- 10 years of building and destroying Robot Wars robots
- Elasticate ALL OF THE MECHANISMS
- Deadly seige weaponry
- Mangonel
- Series 1 Dead Metal
- Meccano
- Sam’s Meccano finger amputator bar spinner
- Plastic, for safety
- Building LEGO from kits
- Saturn V kit
- 1m of phallic, American pride to “display and role-play”
- Why not just buy bricks?
- Big brand crossovers, because LEGO isn’t famous or anything
- LEGO models, or models made of LEGO?
- Millennium Falcon kit comparison
- The crane that ’looks like LEGO’
- K’Nex
- Rubbish, but good
- Simple and effective, but fiddly
- Function over form
- “You’d have a hard time building a good-looking house out of K’Nex”
- An 8 minute argument about whether aesthetics are an engineer’s concern
- Welcome to Tangentsville
- Minorest Star Wars spoilers ever
- The Spinnerproof origins story
- Star Wars ‘Machette’ viewing order
- ‘Correct’ Robot Wars viewing order?
- Mis-remembering Tornado
- Tornado did nothing wrong
- Inquisitor - vanquisher of the mighty Razer
- Ryan tries to remember who won the First World Championships having only started talking about the World Championships as part of a conversation about Razer
- Obsolete audio format.PCX
- The morals of taking LEGO back from a child
- Sam is literally James Bond
- Crushed childhood dreams of entering Robot Wars
- Ryan considers ‘post the year 2000’ to be near the end of Robot Wars
- Scrapheap Challenge
- Dick Strawbridge
1 hr 45 min - 18: Best Episode of the Reboot
- Not complaining about the format
- The best episode ever?
- Probably
- Series 5 final?
- An entirely fair result
- The 10-way wildcard rumble: death and glory
- Tactics
- Michael has done this before with Explosion
- Conserving battery power/gas
- Weapons don’t win these fights
- Spamming Fog of War
- House robot shenanigans
- Where did Dead Metal come from?
- Robot Wars: Extreme Warriors - House Robot Rebellion
- Viewer discretion is advised
- Sir K tries to kill Terrorhurtz
- Extended cut of the rumble!
- Melee 1: Behemoth, Carbide, Nuts 2
- Dave Moulds: The Best Driver in Robot Wars
- Nuts 2’s lucky hits
- SO LUCKY
- Incredible minibot driving
- A joke robot?
- Diotoir “puts Tornado up on its side”
- Judges decision
- How are the actions of minibots accounted for?
- Carbide: villains?
- Majestic.pict
- Melee 2: Eruption, Magnetar, RAPID
- Drum spinner
- Magnetar’s reliability
- SRiMech failure
- The magnets, however, are doing their job
- Redemption round
- Behemoth vs Magnetar
- Battle of the ground clearances
- How to move out of your radius
- RIP Ellis’ Screw. 2017 - 2017
- Behemoth isn’t an old robot
- Trigger’s broom
- It’s an older design sir, but it checks out
- Carbide vs RAPID
- A missed opportunity for RAPID
- A glorious death
- And exceptional sportsmanship
- Semi finals
- Eruption vs Behemoth
- Shenanigan corner
- Behemoth & the put button
- The floor flipper
- Nuts 2 vs Tornado Carbide
- Why did Carbide not defend against Nuts 2 sooner?
- Can Nuts 2 spin the other way?
- Does Nuts 2 fail safe?
- Grand final
- Eruption vs Carbide
- WOW
- Carbide is not at 100%
- Weapon motor issues? Contactor issues? Clutch issues?
- Defensive driving
- Exceptional aggression
- A straightforward judges’ decision?
- Third place?
- Series 11 wishlist
- Goodbye Fog of War
- Repeated fights
- Heat lineup selection
- Other events?
1 hr 55 min - 17: No Apologies!
- Followup
- Spinnerproofing
- Sam’s open letter to Ellis Ware
- Armchair Production
- Fluff
- Inconsistency of style
- Low effort?
- Competition format niggles
- More an issue of heat lineups?
- Ryan may or may not misunderstand the concept of a Swiss Tournament
- Melee 1
- Expulsion
- Excellent ideas, mediocre execution
- Weapon angle & geometry
- Driving
- Naming woes
- Thor
- Hammers and axes are different things?
- Jason’s driving is back to its best
- Scoop selection
- [Coyote] (http://www.robotwars.tv/competitors/season-10/week-5/coyote/)
- Like last time but presumably better?
- Expulsion dies early
- Pit release button problems?
- Flipper Frenzy
- A genuinely good driving match
- Melee 2
- Magnetar
- M A N G E N I U S
- Aesthetics matter
- Hobgoblin
- Aesthetics matter
- Brutalist robot design
- Borderline unfinished, but powerful
- Push to Exit
- Please work
- Front hinges seem really viable
- Control box swap
- Shane begs for his life
- Hobgoblin was also there
- Redemption battles
- Coyote vs Hobgoblin
- In which nothing happens and everything happens
- Coyote’s post-cease shenanigens
- Push to Exit vs Expulsion
- JP crosses the line
- A fight also occurs
- Semi finals
- Thor vs Coyote
- Matilda: the most vioent house robot
- Another very good driving match
- Expulsion vs Magnetar
- Expulsion’s strategy
- Fog of War almost influences a fight?
- “Death Drum”
- Third place playoff
- Coyote vs Expulsion
- What…what happened?
- Final
- Magnetar vs Thor
- Thor’s entanglement device
- Thor’s hammer not hitting low enough
- Magnetar’s power becomes abundantly clear
- How will it get on in the final?
- How would Thor get on if Jason took on a teammate?
- Ratings
- Ill-advised grand final predictions
1 hr 53 min - 16: iPads vs Apples
- Follow up
- Shunt’s absence explained
- Arena walls
- Adult members of the Tracktion team
- Gushing over the episode
- Sam ruins the gushing
- House Robot POVs
- #Trundle
- The Least Foggy of Wars
- No Judges’ section
- Good pits action
- Lack of roboteer characterisation
- Ryan ruins the gushing
- Active weapon rules
- What active weapon rules?
- Melee 1
- Iron Eye Ron Awe 6
- An effective (horizontal) spinner-killer?
- Series 10’s lack of big horizontal spinners
- The Kegs
- A bits ’n’ bobs build
- Almost identical, but just different enough
- Tauron
- More streamlined, more nimble
- Underpowered bar?
- Two grown men confuse themselves about how gyroscopic precession works
- Ryan forgets that Iron Awe 6 won the melee
- Pit button controversies
- Cluster bot rules
- Melee winner
- Uncontroversially Iron Awe 6’s fight (judging by the edited version of the fight we saw)
- But that doesn’t make it the worthy winner
- Melee 2
- Concussion
- Completely rebuilt the same
- Incremental upgrades done right
- Telemetry
- Redrum
- The Nuts guards
- Did they kill Concussion?
- Nuts 2
- Standard horizontal spinner
- Exceptional minibot driving
- How effective is the meltybrains system?
- Nuts 2 the Carbide-killer
- Androne 4000
- OMG IT’S RAZZOR
- The 2-stage crusher system
- Pinning rules
- Other fights
- Concussion vs The Kegs
- Sir K interfering with a countdown
- Tauron vs Androne 4000
- Judges’ decision
- Aggression is king
- Iron Awe vs Concussion
- Shots fired?
- Nuts 2 vs Androne 4000
- Craig Danby’s incredible t-shirt collection
- The flames
- Iron Awe vs Androne 4000
- Concussion vs Nuts 2
- Ratings
1 hr 29 min - 15: RAPID Unplanned Disassembly
- Followup
- Carbide’s battery woes
- Armchair Production 2.1
- Fluff
- ‘Representations’ of roboteers
- Tracktion
- Kids front and center
- Immitate, Improve, Innovate
- Vulture
- Rejecting the cameras
- Should all representations be positive?
- Should there be a ‘representation’ at all?
- Self-censorship for TV
- Charlie Brooker on how TV can use editing to grossly misrepresent real events
- Pay close attention to the use of voiceovers/interview soundbites
- RAPID
- Literally just money. Apparently.
- The British view of money and success
- Apex
- Craig’s ‘strop’
- Are we any better? We hope so
- Melee 1
- Bucky The Robot
- Ryan’s ideal entrant?
- Unreliable self-righting
- RAPID
- Hugely improved
- Excellently driven
- Using the hazards
- Slow flipper reset
- Pneumatics issues
- Boring?
- Very well ‘planted’ and controllable with the 4WD, and therefore visually unspectacular
- Making it look easy
- Tracktion
- Basically not tested in its fights
- Immediately out vs RAPID, Apex self destructed and Vulture forced to withdraw
- Borrowing bits
- Where does this sit within the rules?
- And do we care?
- Active weapon?
- JP’s weird and wonderful commentary
- Overhyping the Fog of War
- Under-hyping the Fog of War
- Conversations with Lucy Rodgers
- Actually analysing the value of FoW
- The primary role of the house robots: freeing stuck robots
- Melee 2
- Apex
- A dangerous machine?
- Do the BBC want us to think this was worse than it was?
- Terrorhurtz
- A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
- Acknowledging the old series
- THE CHAIR
- An inconvenient chair with clear sentimental value
- The Best Hits
- Front armour upgrades
- Vulture
- ‘Not engineers’
- Experienced builders with featherweights…
- Very well constructed
- Underpowered weaponry?
- JP explaining the immobility rules (a bit)
- Sam ruins everything
- Selected fights
- Tracktion vs Apex
- Dead Metal in the arena
- Why Apex died
- Ghosts
- RAPID vs Tracktion
- RAPID’s ’ears’
- Pressure to entertain
- Playing with the rules
- Opening melee restart
- RAPID AMA
- Flipping a transit van 1m in the air
- Ratings
- RobotWarsMascots.djv
1 hr 16 min - 14: You're Not Wrong
- Follow up
- Pitting House Robots
- Jetpacks
- Tomorrow’s World
- A friendly heads up that The Martian seems to now be on Netflix and everybody should watch it.
- Sabretooth’s drum
- Apolcalypse’s grabbers
- Armchair Production 2.0
- The triumphant return of the title sequence
- Manufactured drama?
- “Acting”
- Batteries - all basically the same?
- Aftershock AMA
- Fog of War
- …
- Melee 1
- Big Nipper
- GRIPPA SPINNNAAAAAAAAA
- The Gabriel video
- That hit…
- Gabriel 2
- Respect the design
- Taking a big spinner the distance - when do you see that?
- Beta vs Tombstone? Typhoon 2 vs Storm 2?
- Carbide
- “A good robot”
- 20% improved
- Thrillingly reliable
- If they’re spinning, they’re winning
- Melee 2
- Eruption
- Upgraded?
- New anti-spinner armour?
- The only thing between Carbide and the title?
- This conversation is borderline un-summarisable
- Aftershock
- Forever in Aftershock 1.0’s shadow
- Crackers ’n’ Smash
- Proper clusterbots?
- A retracted apology
- “ARE WE NOT CEASING!?”
- THAT OOTA
- Other fights
- House robots having fun
- Interfering with the result?
- Aftershock vs Carbide
- Eruption vs Big Nipper
- Listening in on the judges
- The lack of a judges’ segment
- Return of the ratings
- Entanglement.bat
- An impromptu look back on Series 8
1 hr 33 min - 13: Worst Episode of the Reboot
- Editing, production and format
- BBC giving episode spoilers
- There IS no perfect intro sequence
- Cold opens are cool
- Battle coverage
- Overproduction?
- Ryan got a B in A-Level media studies and really can’t stop analysing things
- In-arena interviews
- Graphics
- Arena hazards
- Breakages
- Fog of War
- …
- Inconsistent flipper flips
- Spikes
- Conversations with…
- Landing stuff with rockets
- SpaceX = Tesla
- Better judges’ segments
- Antweight building
- Robots
- Behemoth
- WHERE’S THE AXE?
- Reliving the walkout
- Donald Thump
- Everything went better than expected
- DaraStep.PCX
- Donald Thump AMA
- Sabretooth
- Gabe2.0
- Inside The Bot
- Spotting a good/bad driver
- Upgrades = downgrades
- #AccidentalKOB
- Opening Melee
- Who won?
- Why did Behemoth run the ‘classic’ scoop?
- Behemoth AMA
- Sabretwoth
- Apollo
- A slight apology from Ryan re: upgrades
- Series 2 grand final
- Goodbye Marc, hello Alan
- Is the showmanship gone? Is that a bad thing?
- House Robot etiquette
- Apocalypse
- Ed Wallace’s beautiful machines
- The axe shaft
- The Swarm
- Deceptively effective
- Teamwork: makes the dream work
- The ‘Ender’s Game’ formation
- Ryan’s extremely high quality notes (from the first viewing)
- THAT HEAT FINAL
- Apollo losing or Behemoth winning?
- Behemoth’s Great Flipper Escape
- Attempted celebrations
- The blind spot
- The 10-way melee
- Beetleweight Gladiator fight
- W I D E B O Y
- Camerawork challenges
- The flipper flapper…
- The pit release area
- The Spinnerproof Podcast Antweight Challenge
- Showing Sam the wonderful and weird world of antweights
- The video we are watching
- Antweight rules
- The cluster
- A spinner…
- Ryan’s prototype antweight chassis
- The unfolding robot
1 hr 41 min - 12: The Octopus Eye is the Superior Eye
- King of Bots
- Knockoff Ironside 3 (AKA robot #43)
- Mega Melvin
- The Robot Wars trailer
- ‘Robot #76’ - Deathroll & Neon
- Tanshe
- Crossfire
- Why? What? How?
- Spectre
- Ryan realises he started this section without giving Sam any warning…
- Vulcan
- Significant arguing
- We thought physics was risky territory…
- Griffin
- Eruption clone
- MegaBots Inc vs Suidobashi Heavy Industry
- Unmanaged expectations
- The full video
- MegaBots Inc Youtube channel
- Real Steel trailer
- Robot Wars Series X
- What we got right, what we got wrong
- Predictions
57 min
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Spinnerproof is a podcast about combat robotics