![]() ![]() The Rage Panel slides out from the bottom, so I took the bottom plate off, which also let me do a hardware inspection on parts of the bot I rarely touch after finishing. New drive motors were also on the docket. With the promise of more rematches with Alex Horne’s not-Sewer-Snake, I decided on a quick tuneup by replacing the broken ABS lift motor mounts with MarkForged Onyx prints because of course I did. I also ended up demolishing another motor pinion just like at Momocon the most recent set of motors for 12 O’Clocker came from some 12V Ryobi drill motors, and it seems like they were not up to the task of being run at ~20 volts.įast forward another 2 months, and MassDestruction the SIXTH! was on the horizon. At some point in the final against Snek Plissken, I also lost the lift motors which turned out to be one of the logic capacitors on the old RageBridge 1 units in 12 O’Clocker just breaking off the board. I finished the tournament using a found drill motor given to me by an Artisans’ member, unceremoniously hot glue MIG-welded into the remaining mounting block pieces. For the deterioriating ABS motor mounts that retained the lift motor finally gave out completely, wrenching the drill casing apart under its own torque: This is a great problem to have.ġ2 O’Clocker came in 2nd place (out of like….3?) at this event, which was great, but it did take some damage. What’s better is that the builder population is getting more and more towards being newbie-dominated. This is “filming a music video using the flashmob mosh pit at your post-phlegmpunk band’s free unannounced concert” level stuff. MassDestruction has become a popular regional attraction word has gotten out, and we pretty much filled out the Artisans’ Asylum event room to capacity. However, this didn’t prevent me from putting 12 O’Clocker (at the time, my only working bot -_-) into the arena in the somewhat informal 12lb Sportsman’s Class, where pretty neat matches like this occurred. This MassD, I took a more organizational role, helping judge and run matches. To tell this story, we go back to the dark days of MassDestruction #5, like 3 months ago… Wait, CAN YOU BELIEVE THERE’S BEEN 5 OF THESE THINGS ALREADY? THAT’S MORE SEASON THAN BATTLEBOTS please take me back greg ~ It’s gotten sufficiently worn down to a stub in the past few months that I decided to do a full teardown rebuild with some new parts! This bouncy little thing has been going to events and demos since 2013 with hardly any changes – just switching motors, basically. Where has he gone? *looks at own hands*īut now I’m back, with some new developments for Überclocker in preparation for Motorama coming up next week, as well as 12 O’Clocker stories to tell first. ![]() I feel like this website has become the Life of Charles, what with real editorials and non-stop round-the-clock van coverage and my tenuous professional aspirations… This is not the man I know. ![]()
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