Rank
4
Ampere
1lb - Antweight

Vertical 4wd Beater Bar

Compact vertical spinner with a heavy weapon focus to hit hard and dominate fights.

V2: Beater Ampere (Sept 2024 - Present)

  • Many lessons incorporated from fighting with the previous version.
  • Originally intended to be an evolution to a direct driven drisk weapon similar to Abaddon Mk2, concerns over horizontal and single blade vert matchups led me to choose a beater bar instead.
  • Improvements made to driving speed, side armor, inverted driving, and weapon.
  • Repeat Mini Mk3 motors for drive, with lower reduction gearboxes, on 4S
  • Much higher tip speed on weapon.
  • More ground game options
  • Semifinals at MRCA 2024 Finals, placed 4th

V1: Drisk Ampere (Feb 2024 - Sept 2024)

  • First combat bot I ever designed 
  • Used a drisk weapon that weighed about 100g depending on what you are counting
  • 2.1" spinning diameter, maybe 185mph at the most in tip speed (not great)
  • Used a fully TPU monobody chassis, with repeat mini brushed motors
  • Prohibitively slow driving, which meant I never got a ton of bite, and was bullied by control bots.
  • Was brought to 2 events before summer, and didn't compete at either of them, and then fought at a following 4 events that summer.
  • 1st at Betz Bots July 2024
  • 2nd at RSL at the Armory August 2024
  • 3rd/4th at Robot Battles 72 (no 3rd place match)