Servo - June 2008

held the Central Illinois Bot Brawl 2008 on 3/29/2008 in Peoria, IL. Twenty bots were registered.

Robots Live held Memorabilia on 3/29-30/2008 in Birmingham, England.

Upcoming Events for June-July 2008

ComBots will present RoboGames 2008 on 6/12-15/2008 in San Francisco, CA. At press time, almost 100 combat bots were registered. Go to www.robogames.net for more information.

D. W. Robots will present Pennsylvania Bot Blast 2008 in Bloomsburg, PA on 7/12/2008. Seventeen bots were registered at press time. Go to www. dwrobots.com/tournament.html for more information.

War-Bots Xtreme will present WBX-V “Taking the Fifth” on 7/26/2008 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Twenty-nine bots were registered at press time.

Go to www.warbotsxtreme.com for more information.

The North East Robotics Club will present House of Benson – Barnyard Brawl in Winchendon, MA, on 7/26/2008. Thirty-seven bots were registered at press time. Go to www.nerc.us for more information.

Roaming Robots will present Guildford 2008 in Guildford, England on 6/15/2008; and UK Champs 08/RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England on 7/12-13/ 2008. Go to www.roamingrobots. co.uk for more information. SV

EVENT REP RT

Saskatoon Combat Robotics Club (SCRC) — Kilobots XII

● by Kurtis Wanner

Instead of writing the usual event report, I have decided to give you a glimpse into the minds of the builders while competing. I asked everyone to write fight reports for their robots and have chosen to present — from each driver’s point of view — the path of Metroid through the antweight (1 lb) field of robots. (See Figure 1.)

rear wedge, and a large neodymium magnet to help keep the robot stuck to the steel arena floor.”

Metroid vs. Kitbot: 1st Place Champion of Previous Two Events

Builder Dennis Beck, of Team DBM, Describes Metroid

Dennis: “Metroid’s first ever match was against Team Fingertech’s Kitbot. The angle of Kitbot’s lifting wedge/plow was steep enough that Metroid’s weapon teeth would not be able to catch on the leading edge of the wedge. Luckily, the sharpened steel weapon teeth on Metroid’s spinning drum were able to get enough bite into Kitbot’s titanium wedge, flipping him over. Kitbot would be inverted for the

remainder of the match. Metroid got in a few more good hits on Kitbot before the endcap retaining nut came unthreaded from Metroid’s drum, causing the drum to come out of alignment, eventually jamming against the frame. The inverted Kitbot and Metroid chased each other around the arena for the remainder of the fight. Judges decision was in favor of Metroid ... a great start!”

“Metroid is a new bot to me. It is of the drum spinner design, that has been proven to work well in other antweight robots. I chose to add some features that I have never seen before on other antweight drum spinners. I added titanium wheel guards, an adjustable height