EVENT REP RT:
Mayhem in Miami
At Mayhem in Miami, it wasn’t without a bang that Fluffy
earned the name Flamin’ Fluffy, and
made the South Florida robotics
event be true to its name.
● by Joey Daoud
from sharpened metal, paper clips,
and razor blades, to syringes and
metal brushes.
In the end, Columbus took all
three places. Forklift, which came in
first, had a row of syringes that
could be raised or lowered based on
the balloon height. Since their first
place win at the Miami Science
Museum competition, they added a
side arm with a syringe that allowed
them to continue to pop balloons,
even when their opponent was
engaging them from the front.
Forklift also won Coolest Design for
task robots.
In second place was Schwinger
— a robot built completely by
freshmen — beating out the senior
robot R-1 which came in third.
However, R-1 did receive the Best
Engineering award for task robot.
For the 15 lb. BattleBots
competition, there was a strong
showing from Ransom Everglades
and Miami Lakes Educational
Center, with additional robots from
Carrollton and Columbus.
Some notable fights were
Fluffy (Ransom Everglades) — a
rectangular robot with angled sides
and a six inch drum with two teeth
opposite each other — against
Robokill (Carrollton) — a low profile
invertible bot with angled ends,
similar to a rubber eraser.
Miami Lakes vs.
Ransom shows why
sparks are such a
crowd pleaser!
Fluffy shows what happens when
magic smoke turns into magic fire.
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