New High School Battle Bots

[Greg Needel]

Originally Posted by miketwalker

Be very cautious with doing stuff in the backyard and all. You'd be surprised how much power some of those suckers have. The actual Battlebots arena is completly steel everywhere with I believe 0.5" lexan all around, as well as the spike rails to keep the robots from slamming into the walls. Even with that, they still have to constantly strengthen the arena cause of newer and even more powerful battlebots. Just be really cautious that you aren't going to throw 2 spinners against each other in the backyard or something silly like that, because the end result won't be a happy one.

Don't worry about Alex , i will make sure whatever we do is safe. this will be my 3rd bot i have worked on and i take special care to make sure everything is thought about. the frame is going to be 1" square steel, welded and gusseted. along with everything else built in the RIT machine shop. I don't believe in "HACK engineering" so everything will be top notch. i will post some screen shots of our CAD once everything is finalized. It turns out i have alot of free time now that finals are over.

the only problem i might have is that assuming my DARPA Grand Challenge team gets accepted i won't be at the competition, but then again it is the process of building that is the most fun and important.