Description

• Battlebots Basement Battles
  • All now on the Battlebots YouTube channel
  • Highlights:
    • Valkyrie vs Overhaul
    • Duck vs Gigabyte
• Bugglebots
  • Heat 5 has aired since recording
  • Heats just getting better and better
  • Robots of interest
    • Bourbon
      • Hexagonal drum hype
    • Mini Spinny
      • PP3D, but small
    • Wee Woo
      • Viability of multibots
    • Maximum Ogredrive
      • Sawblaze, but small
      • Saws are cool and everybody knows it
      • No, Dragon King does not count as a modern heavyweight which used a saw
    • Flick
      • Design/build video
      • SLS explained in 2 minutes
      • SLS explained in 15 minutes
        • TL:DW The uncured powder, confined within the bed and relatively compacted, provides stable support for new layers. This loose material falls away once the finished part is removed.
    • SCD
      • Sam has been converted
      • Accelerometer noise and drift
    • Hard Knox
    • Dr Thwackenstein
    • Apex BW
  • Removable links
    • A silly way to lose
    • Necessary at the weight class?
    • Possible alternatives?
  • Kit-built robots
    • Competitiveness of certain kits which will remain nameless
    • Possible difficulties with identical robots entering competitions
      • For competitors
      • For spectators
    • Who is the target market?
      • D2 kits are not as plug and play as this discussion makes them sound - internals still need to be bought and fitted separately
• Sam’s Stupendous SpaceX Sit-Rep
  • Block 5 has been working well
    • Landing abort/failure
    • ‘Intelligent’ landing systems
    • Human rating
      • Uncrewed Crew Dragon test flight…soon?
      • Texas does have a coastline. 300 miles of it.
      • In-flight abort test…slightly less soon?
        • Blue Origin in-flight abort test
      • Manned demo flight: 2/3 crew chosen chosen and announced
      • Crew access walkway
    • Sperm!
    • BFR
      • Now called ‘Superheavy’ and ‘Starship’
      • Starship Hopper