Fierce Lawn Boy and One Fierce
Bushwhacker (Figure 20), took
home three special awards: Best
Engineered Robot, One Fierce Lawn
Boy; Longest Distance Traveled,
Michigan; and Most Destructive
Robot, anything with “One Fierce” in
FIGURE 20. Gene Burbeck, Team Fierce
Robots, and his Beetleweight bot One Fierce
Lawn Boy and Mantisweight bot One Fierce
Bushwhacker.
TABLE 2 — SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS.
• Longest Distance Traveled: Gene Burbeck
• Rookie of the Year: Evan Steeves
• Sportsmanship: Zac O'Donnell
food gift cards from local
vendors. There were also door
prizes for registered
competitors (Figure 21).
• Best Driver: Kyle Singer
• Best Engineered: One Fierce Lawn Boy
• Coolest: Reclipso
• Most Destructive: Anything starting with
"One Fierce" in the name
• Author's Award for Best Pit Crew: Jamison Go
the name. Zac O’Donnell received
the BotBlast “Sportsmanship”
award.
A list of the winners is shown in
Table 1, and a list of the special
award winners as either voted on by
the competitors or selected by the
event organizer, is shown in Table 2.
The winners shared plenty of prizes,
including custom designed
sequenced starting lights for first
place, trophies and plaques for
second place, third place, rumble
winners, and special awards, along
with tools from mall merchants and
Event organizer Campbell
credits his family (Figure 22)
for making BotBlast 2011 an
overwhelming success. While
Jeremy (second from the
right) is the ring leader,
Mark your calendar now for
mid-July 2012, and plan to attend
this fun event! You can follow
BotBlast on their website at
www.botblast.webs.com. SV
FIGURE 21.
Awards table.
FIGURE 22. Campell family (left to right): grandma Margaret
Sponenberg, mom Trish, event organizer Jeremy,
and dad, Warren.
PARTS IS PARTS:
Fingertech ‘Silver Spark’
Gearmot r Review
Fingertech Robotics’ first line of Insect-sized gearmotors — the
Gold Sparks — were originally
released in 2009 as a drop-in
replacement for the commonly used
Banebots 16 mm models. Popular
among Antweight robots for their
● by Thomas Kenney
high power/weight ratio,
convenience, and availability of
multiple gear ratios, the builder
community felt the Banebots
motors needed more reliability.
The Gold Sparks fixed most of
the issues, completely replicating
FIGURE 1.
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