How about new motors?

[Matt Leese]

Originally posted by dlavery
After a few years of pushing the Bosch drill motors right to the limits of their performance during the competitions (even when taking full advantage of Dr. Joe's wonderful drill mods ), I keep wondering if we will have them in the kits again next year as the probable "prime movers." Is there any significant interest in pushing for a more capable set of motors?

I am getting one of the motors that many of the BattleBots teams are starting to use, which looks very impressive if the write-ups are anywhere near accurate (see http://www.robotbooks.com/robot-motors.htm for info). I am interested enough that I paid for one of these puppys out of my pocket (don't tell my wife!), and want to play with it this summer.

They are expensive, but if we had something like this in the kits, it could make for an entirely different game (I have visions of last year's machines being able to get serious air time off the bridge if we had similar motors ). Machine speed and Robo-Sumo capabilites could become major aspects of the game.

-dave

I'd have to say stick with what we have. The main reason for that is because there is a certain challenge to making a drill motor drive a robot. It's part of the competition to be challenging. The drill motors aren't designed to drive a robot and it's something that has to be engineered around. Plus I want to think the drill motors are donated....

Matt