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Spinnerproof
By Sam Hutchins and Ryan BratleyTechnology
Spinnerproof episodes
- 11: Robot Wars S10 - The Foggiest of Wars
- ‘Spoiler’ warnings
- We will be discussing:
- Heat lineups
- Likely opening melee lineups
- New robots
- Upgrades to old robots
- We will not be discussing:
- Fight results
- Housekeeping
- Episode & tournament format
- The 10 robot entrant wildcard melee
- Bye bye round robin
- Visual explanation
- #BringBackBash
- Fog of War
- Sam is pre-emptively enraged
- Entanglement
- Robots
- Notable absences
- Heat A
- Behemoth
- Sabretooth
- Donald Thump
- Apollo
- Video - non spoiler
- The Swarm
- Apocalypse
- Heat B
- Eruption
- Aftershock
- Crackers & Smash
- Carbide
- Gabriel
- The weapon is, in fact, visible and looks new.
- (Big) Nipper
- Heat C
- RAPID
- Tracktion
- Bucky The Robot
- Apex
- Vulture
- Budget Pulsar
- Terrorhurtz
- Heat D
- Concussion (tiny spoiler?)
- Nuts 2 (tiny spoiler?)
- Androne 4000
- Tauron
- Iron-Awe 6
- The Kegs
- Heat E
- Hobgoblin
- Magnetar
- An open letter to Ellis Ware
- Push to Exit
- Thor
- Expulsion
- Coyote
1 hr 46 min - 10: The Rake of Doom
- Followup
- Ryan’s Reasonably Comprehensive List of Pink Robots
- Ellie’s Little Pink Bot - not actually anything to do with Bigger Brother.
- Sophisticated statistical analysis of robot colour popularity
- Sam is blown away by house robots which were around for 3 of the 9 original series
- Yes, I am classing Extreme 1 & 2 as series. No, I don’t feel good about that.
- Robots
- Rotator
- The ol’ ‘having two spinners is silly’ rant
- Sam applies his wealth of Lego-based wheel knowledge
- Fights: vs Witch Doctor
- Witch Doctor
- ThatsACoolSpinnerDesign.WebP
- The newer, slightly less cool spinner design
- External vs internal symmetry
- Dying in a cloud
- Fight: vs Rotator, vs Red Devil
- Wrecks
- Ryan’s misplaced optimism is quickly and efficiently shot down
- Thank you for ‘validating my effort’ by being here
- Gyrobot
- A Hebocon build is born
- Ridiculous volume control interfaces
- Fights: vs Red Devil
- Red Devil
- Dead Metal, but effective
- #BashyBashy
- Fights: vs Wrecks, vs Witch Doctor, vs Bombshell
- Splatter
- Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy?
- Big Bang Theory robots
- Damn it Sam…
- Fights: vs Warrior Clan
- Warrior Clan
- Warrior Clan vs Nightmare
- Ideal vertical spinner contact points (according to Ryan, who knows next to nothing)
- If you can correct this then please, please do
- Hypershock’s rake
- Fights: vs Splatter, vs Hypershock (USA only)
- Ultraviolent
- …
- Fights: vs Hypershock
- Hypershock
- Ridiculous drum concepts
- Fights: vs Ultra Violent, vs Warrior Clan (USA only), vs Poison Arrow
- Hellachopper
- Bullseye may be the least international reference possible…
- Test videos:
- Extended cables
- Final, fatal testing
- Home testing
- Armchair Engineering: Alternative Forms of Locomotion
- Cam shufflers
- ‘Proper’ walkers
- Degrees of freedom
- Gyroscopic precession
- If the whole ‘yaw is turned into forward movement’ bit is a bit confusing, imagine shuffling along on your backside - shifting your weight from one butt cheek to the other
- Brushbots
- Vibrant
- Linear induction
1 hr 37 min - 9: The Robotiest Robot
- Followup
- r/Battlebots AMA list
- Two-Headed Death Flamingo
- #MorePinkRobots
- BroncoGangers? DoppleBronco?
- Robots part 1
- Mohawk
- NO PYRO, NO PARTY
- It’s not Razer
- The beak tip design
- Fights: vs Biteforce
- Biteforce Biteforce
- Show Ryan the biting!
- Basically their rejected 2015 design
- S T A T I S T I C S
- Fights: vs Mohawk, vs Ringmaster, vs Chomp (USA only)
- Ultimo Destructo
- Multiple setups:
- Horizontal bar spinner
- Hammer
- Flipper
- Fights: vs Ringmaster
- The Ringmaster
- Omnidirectional Vector Drive
- There is no Facebook video. Ryan accidentally made that up.
- Which way is forwards? Is there a forwards?
- Machining porn
- Weapon noise
- Fights: vs Ultimo Destructo, vs Biteforce
- The Disc O’ Inferno
- Assymetric spinner ballancing
- Material thinning
- #SamsBluntLumps
- The judge’s decision controversy
- More Machining Porn
- Fights: vs Chomp
- Chomp
- HARDOX hammer arms
- ThatsALotOfPower.gif
- Huuuuuuuuuuuge ram (the black bit…)
- Linear motion –> hurty motion
- LIDAR - ‘AutoChomp’
- THAT hit on Biteforce
- Fights: vs Disc O Inferno, vs Captain Shredderator, vs Biteforce (USA Only), vs Yeti
- Deathroll
- Artbot?
- Australia.bmp
- Map Men
- Fights: vs Captain Shredderator
- Captain Shredderator
- A very angry biscuit
- Fights: vs Deathroll, vs Chomp
- Referees
- Uniforms matter
- Actual communication between competitors and officials.
- REFDRONE
- Sam’s plane
- Robots part 2
- Poison Arrow
- Nothing. Like. Hypershock.
- Fights: vs Mega Tento, vs SOW, vs Hypershock, vs Bombshell
- Mega Tento
- Tentomushi in Robot Wars
- Moving the ‘drum’
- Defining a ‘drum’
- Krave Monster
- Fights: vs Poison Arrow, vs Stinger TKB (USA only), vs Yeti
- Lycan
- 35mph top speed. That’s a lot of speeds
- How fast could a Battlebots-legal robot go?
- Sam finally squeezes in a Star Wars reference
- Creepy Crawlies
- 5-part multibot
- Not a proper clusterbot, apparently.
- Gemini
- 2-part multibot
- Also not a proper clusterbot, apparently.
- Root3
- Armchair Engineering: Automation
- What do the rules allow?
- Sam lets his mind run wild for a while
- What is worth doing?
- Arena hazard avoidance?
- Wall avoidance?
- SENSORDRONE?
- Automating weapons
- The Chomp hammer
- Flippers?
- Grabbers?
- Super-fast sumo robots
- Technogames tangent
- Futher rocketry tangent
- We don’t come back from this
1 hr 31 min - 8: Flames, Drones, and Minibots
- Followup
- Reddit thread
- Spinner design & materials
- Tombstone’s weapon bars
- Pros & cons of AluminIum
- Money
- Prize money
- Robots part 1
- Bronco
- ALL OF THE WHEELS
- How on Earth is Minotaur pronounced?
- Taking two robots
- Fights: vs Blacksmith, vs Chromefly, vs Razorback, vs Minotaur: NONE OF THE WHEELS
- Blacksmith
- Thatsagoodlookingbot.jpeg
- Fights: vs Bronco, vs Minotaur
- Chromefly
- Weapons mounted directly to motor output shafts?
- Fights: vs Bucktooth Burl, vs Bronco
- Bucktooth Burl
- Drum design
- Compactness
- Fancy tyres
- ‘Fights’: vs Chromefly
- Razorback
- Fights: vs Sawblaze, vs Ghost Raptor, vs Bronco
- Sawblaze
- The different discs
- Welcome to Tangentville
- Skorpios
- ‘Scorpios robot’
- Scorpion
- Fights: vs Razorback
- Son of Whyachi
- [Old walker rules] (http://robotwars.wikia.com/wiki/Walkerbots#Definition)
- Season 3.0 SOW
- Drillzilla
- Team Whyachi’s robots
- Fights: vs Ghost Raptor, vs Poison Arrow
- Ghost Raptor
- Sam is annoyed by more welding
- 2015 Ghost Raptor’s shenanigans
- Ryan is annoyed that GR got a wildcard because its another spinner, goes on to suggest 2 spinners as better wildcards.
- Fights: vs Son of Wyachi, vs Razorback
- Flames, Drones, and Minibots
- Drone piloting rules
- Sam can’t tell the difference between Poison Arrow and Hypershock
- Nuisance minibots
- #BringBackBash
- Robots part 2
- Minotaur
- ‘Standard drum spinner’
- Waxing lyrical in a way not conducive to detailed shownote making
- Fights: vs Photon Storm, vs Blacksmith, vs Warhead, vs Bronco, vs Bombshell: RIP
- Photon Storm
- Live tour record
- Fights: vs Minotaur
- Complete Control
- Grabber + fire = fun
- The blowtorch
- Preserving your ‘brand’
- Sam still can’t tell the difference between Poison Arrow and Hypershock
- Fights: vs Bombshell, vs Warhead
- Bombshell
- Modular weaponry
- Horizontal spinner
- Vertical spinner
- Axe
- Lifter
- Gigantic team
- Ryan really doesn’t like Swiss Army Bots
- Fights: vs Complete Control, vs Cobalt, vs Red Devil (USA only), vs Poison Arrow, vs Minotaur, vs Tombstone: grand final, low quality
- Warhead
- That new grabber head thing
- Sam likes a robot which ‘cannot win’
- Tornado ‘cheat’ their way to the series 6 title
- Tornado’s arsenal of ‘weapons’
- Fights: vs Obwalden Overlord: UK low quality or USA high quality, vs Complete Control, vs Minotaur
- Obwalden Overlord
- Controls in action
- Mark Setrakian’s ‘Snake’
- Behemoth & Gravity vs Cassius Chrome, Mr Psycho & Growler
- Fights: vs Warhead: UK low quality or USA high quality
- Armchair Engineering: Alternative flipper systems
- Garfie489’s comments
- Onboard compressors?
- Armakillo
- Linear Induction Motor?
- Hyperloop
- Electric motors?
- Flywheel power?
- Springs?
1 hr 38 min - 7: The Jellyfish of Battlebots
- Followup
- The Heat E line-up
- Whiteboard matches
- On-board footage from Behemoth
- Re-re-opening the engineering wound
- ‘Dave Lowry’
- Ryan’s tries to clarify his position for the [n]^th time
- Battlebots
- WTF is Battlebots?
- The key differences with Robot Wars
- 2015 Highlight reel
- How to find the shownotes. Which you clearly already know how to do. Because these are the show notes. And you are reading them. Well done I guess?
- I’ll just put the Jellyfish video here again…
- The bracket
- Group 1
- HERE BE SPOILERS!
- Tombstone:
- Shock mounted drive
- Last Rites
- vs Witch Doctor (2015)
- Fights: vs Black ice, vs Escape Velocity, vs Brutus, vs Yeti, vs Beta, vs Bombshell (low quality)
- Black Ice:
- What does it actually…do?
- The 3 ‘weapons’
- Dan Barry,
- Fights: Qualifier vs Skorpios & Bad Kitty, vs Tombstone
- Escape Velocity:
- Aluminium honeycomb
- SpaceX’s previous foray into combat robots
- Fights: vs Overdrive, vs Tombstone
- Overdrive:
- Sam needs to start rhyming
- 2015 Overdrive
- Ryan is bothered by a lack of gyro-dancing
- Fights: vs Escape Velocity
- Group 2
- Brutus
- 2015 Witch Doctor vs 2016 Brutus
- Ryan doesn’t like gimmicks
- Asymetric/single tooth disc design
- Fights: Vs Moebius, vs Lockjaw, vs Tombstone
- Moebius
- ‘Standard full body spinner’ designs
- Direct Metal Laser Sintering, Super-Draco engines, harder than diamond
- Fights: vs Brutus
- Ray Billings vs Peirce Hawthorne - because apparently somebody else also though this
- Yeti
- What Ryan thinks Alaska is like
- Sam considers quitting the podcast
- Fights: vs Lockjaw, vs Lucky, vs Tombstone
- Lockjaw
- Spring powered flipper
- What came first, the flipper or the clamp?
- Lockjaw’s lineage and previous performances
- Fights: vs Yeti, vs Brutus
- Deconstructing the show
- Sports broadcasting
- Presenters
- Samantha Ponder
- Kenny Florian & Chris Rose
- Faruq Tauheed
- The pit reporters
- The arena-side reporter
- The tale of the tape: Less informative than a Bill Nye Netflix series
- Online info
- Competitor profiles
- Competition stats (aka ‘sports information’)
- Robot Wars wiki vs Battlebots wiki
- Converting from lbs to more civilised units
- Robot sponsorships
- Group 3
- ICEwave
- Full body spinner?
- Stalling petrol engines
- Sneaky paintwork
- Fights: vs Sub Zero, vs Nightmare
- Sub-Zero
- Sam continues to be annoyed by ugly welding
- Struggling to remember the weight limit
- Fights: vs ICEwave
- Stinger
- Stinger: the Killer Bee
- Gratuitous flames
- Modular weaponry
- Effective spinner-killing
- Wyrm
- Fights: vs Nightmare, vs Mega Tento (US only)
- Nightmare
- Estimating the height
- Ryan is sure he rememberes the fight with Beta and is almost entirely wrong
- ‘Self righting’ system
- Old disc vs new disc
- Fights: vs Stinger TKB, vs ICEwave, vs Beta
- Group 4
- Beta
- Two grown men fall in love with a furious limpet for approximately 5 minutes
- Design details: Hammer head, crooked arm, armour hinges, weapon motor and mechanism, Beta website
- Breaking the floor
- Fights: vs Lucky, vs Overhaul (US only), vs Nightmare (US only), vs Tombstone
- Lucky
- Wedge weirdness
- Fights: vs Beta, vs Yeti
- Cobalt
- Comparisons with Carbide
- Bombshell won or Cobalt lost?
- Fights: vs Overhaul, Vs Bombshell :(
- Overhaul
- Becoming Biteforce: a winning paintjob?
- Fights: vs Cobalt, vs Beta (US only)
- The judges
- The judging criteria: defining aggression
- Beta vs Tombstone
- Celebrity/guest judges
- Armchair Engineering: Flipper mechanisms
- Gassing about gasses: a plea for more information
- Mechanisms
- The classic ‘BritWedge’ flipper
- The Bronco/SubZero ’launcher’
- The Escape Velocity…thing…
- Lucky’s 4-bar lifter/flipper
1 hr 35 min - 6: Manufacturing Controversy
- Follow-up
- Episode 4
- Foxic: winner of an fight ft. terrible live commentary.
- Episode 5
- Welding and working with Aluminium.
- The original Heat E lineup ft. excellent detective work.
- Reopening the Jellyfish engineering wound. (skip to 30mins to avoid. We won’t blame you.)
- The engineering mindset & formal education.
- ‘Solved’ problems and best practices.
- Learning to be creative - John Cleese on ‘playing’
- Ryan doesn’t know how to define the terms of his argument
- Melee 1
- Apollo (wildcard)
- Aftershock
- Eruption
- Melee 2
- Carbide
- Concussion
- Ironside 3
- Head to Heads
- Ironside 3 vs Eruption
- Carbide vs Aftershock
- The arena does its job
- The BBC spoiler policy - Conker 3 in an excellent battle
- Aftershock vs Ironside 3
The fixening- Carbide vs Eruption
- Aftershock vs Eruption
Hurting the house robots- Carbide vs Ironside 3
- Final
Carbide vs EruptionCarbide vs the House Robots- Ratings (spoiler alert)
- Ryan’s Robot Rank-O-Rama
- Part 1: ‘objective’ rankings
- Part 2: favourites
- Armchair Production
- Re-working the format
1 hr 58 min - 5: Tomato Can
- Follow up
- The costs of Chaos 2 and Frostbite
- The pit button, how does it work?
- Melee 1
- Apollo
- Rusty
- Ms. Nightshade
- Coyote
- Melee 2
- Crackers and Smash
- Carbide
- Mega Mouse
- Trolley Rage
- Conversations with Sethu Vijayakumar
- No-one has human rated launch capability to the Moon, let alone Mars
- Focus rings on Martian GoPros
- Crackers, Smash and the rules of Robot Wars
- Coyote volunteer for a pasting
- Carbide vs. Apollo 2 - The Sparkening
- Armchair engineering
- Armour
- Hydroforming
1 hr 22 min - 4: Health, Safety, and Smoking Motors
- We’re live!
- Ryan feels terrible about last episode’s audio
- Follow up
- Foxic wins a fight
- Facts and figures
- Melee 1
- Supernova
- Frostbite
- Wyrm
- High 5
- Melee 2
- Crushtacean
- Ironside 3
- Apex
- Pulsar
- Pulsar vs. Ironside 3
- Supernova vs. Frostbite
- Conversations with Lucy Rodgers
- Big hits
- Ratings
- Armchair engineering
- Weaponry
- Kan-opener
1 hr 38 min - 3: The Ventoning
- Stealing logos
- Follow up
- Foamcore robots
- Round 1
- Melee 1
- Thor
- Tauron
- Concussion
- Chimera 2
- Melee 2
- Foxic
- Explusion
- MR Speed Squared
- Heavy Metal
- Round 2
- Thor vs. Concussion
- MR Speed Squared vs. Heavy Metal
- Conversations with Noel Sharkey
- Round 2 cont.
- Heavy Metal vs. Concussion
- Thor vs. MR Speed Squared
- MR Speed Squared vs. Concussion
- The definition of armament
- Round 2 cont.
- Heavy Metal vs Thor
- Tungsten hammers
- Final
- Concussion vs. Thor
- Armchair engineering
- Omnidirectional wheels: how do they work?
- X Robots
- Strafing robots
1 hr 25 min - 2: Legitimate Sporting Competition
- Follow-up
- Jellyfish: The Saga Continues
- Round 1 - Group Battles
- Melee 1
- [Cobra] (http://www.robotwars.tv/competitors/season-9/week-2/cobra/)
- [Hobgoblin] (http://www.robotwars.tv/competitors/season-9/week-2/hobgoblin/)
- [Behemoth] (http://www.robotwars.tv/competitors/season-9/week-2/behemoth/)
- [Eruption] (http://www.robotwars.tv/competitors/season-9/week-2/eruption/)
- Melee 2
- [Draven] (http://www.robotwars.tv/competitors/season-9/week-2/draven/)
- [PP3D] (http://www.robotwars.tv/competitors/season-9/week-2/pp3d/)
- [Cherub] (http://www.robotwars.tv/competitors/season-9/week-2/cherub/)
- [Push To Exit] (http://www.robotwars.tv/competitors/season-9/week-2/push-to-exit/)
- Round 2 - Head to Head
- Behemoth vs. Eruption
- PP3D vs. Cherub
- Eruption vs. Cherub
- PP3D vs. Cherub
- PP3D vs. Behemoth
- Noel Sharkey vs. The Urge to Say ‘Amazon’
- Round 2 cont.
- PP3D vs. Eruption
- Cherub vs. Behemoth
- Round 3 - Final
- Eruption vs. Cherub
- Armchair Engineering
- Transmitter Setups
1 hr 30 min
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Spinnerproof is a podcast about combat robotics