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)