EVENTS
Upcoming Events for July 2011
Bot Blast 2011 will be presented by
Team Dreadfully
Wicked Robots on
July 16th at the
Columbia Mall in Bloomsburg, PA.
Go to
www.botblast.us for more
information.
Schiele Museum
Clash Of
The Bots 2
will be
presented by Carolina Combat
Robots in Gastonia, NC on July
23rd. Go to
www.carolina
combat.com for more
information. SV
EVENT REPORT:
Rob t Rumble
● by Pete Smith
The Museum of Life and Science in Durham, NC held its fourth
annual “Robot Rumble” on Saturday
April 16, 2011.
Carolina Combat (www.
carolinacombat.com) and Kitbots
(
www.kitbots.com) combined to
put on a show as part of the event.
Our involvement has grown over the
last three years we have attended,
and now we had a whole hall to
ourselves. This allowed us to set up
the bot hockey arena so that the
crowd could get to all four sides, an
insectweight arena, and a display
area of combat bots and Kitbots
products.
FIGURE 1.
not have it all our way as Chuck
Butler skillfully made a breakaway
for a goal for Carolina Combat
(Figure 2).
We ran two minute matches
for half an hour every hour, and
used the other half hour to
recharge the batteries (Figure 3;
the pizza was to recharge the
drivers!), run demos using
Beetleweight spinner Weta, God
of Ugly Things to beat up plastic
bottles and soda cans in the small
arena, and to talk with passersby
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