Compared to 2022, I got more projects finished in 2023. so I thought it was worth doing another thread reflecting back on my making this year. I started with a project I've since abandoned -a full body spinner antweight fighting bot, with a shell intended to create downforce

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fight vid links:.Digestive's fights:.1:30:12: 3:06:23: whiteboard: 5:41:32. Paradigm Spin's fights:.1:11:22 2:31:40.whiteboard: 6:07:49.

I got a whiteboard (fun fight) against Bonkers, Kenneth & Ice Breaker. The drive started fine but then issues started quite quickly. Then the shell went unstable & the bot started spinning on its top. I decided to just pin the weapon throttle to full. The Rx was ejected!

That was a sad fight. I knocked out the mini bot, but then my drive kept cutting out. The reset time on the esc is about 6seconds, so the count out kept starting for me being immobile, then it'd come back to life just before I was counted out. Bob Toss won by judges decision.

I just found Bob Toss has a mini bot!

I think I've managed to put it back together and seems to be working. My next fight is soon, against Bob Toss.

Wow! Great fight! I lost the foam bumper early on, but the new link retainer did it's job well and survived two minutes of being aggressively thrown around. I lost by judges decision, Bonkers obviously had way more control

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