This one has me a little worried. It has some "home brewed" electronics on it. The intent is to jam electrodes into the enemy robot and fry the electronics with a spark generator. I should mention that the electronics are all mine, they get reused from one year to the next. I don't know whether this thing will actually work, but I assume the malevolent 8th grader who spawned this atrocity is going for this:
I let kids take the projects home with them. Heck, adult input does not seem to have any major positive effect. I have never had a kid build a tank tread robot. For some reason when working at home they shortened up the treads. Makes it rather less effective I think.
This robot's weapon is basically...a big stick. It has a Barby Jeep gear box driving a good sized hunk of lumber. The video below is short and the robot was hindered by an undetected low battery, but this thing will put the wood to a few opponents....
More up and coming combatants in the days ahead. Oh, and after years of only rewarding my hard working volunteers with gratitude and a Thai food dinner to follow, this year there are T-shirts....
2 comments:
Who's doing your Tees? If they come in other-than-black, I'd be tempted to get one for my grand-daughter...
Oldster
Local chap doing them. shoot me an email at the dagmarsuarez address. I could call and add one in another color for you but sinister black is trad for robotic combat.
Tacitus
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