Servo - July 2010

was lopped off. Before the finals match with a nasty eggbeater, we bent an unhardened steel wedge to about 100 degrees, drilled new mounting holes, and simply screwed it onto the same sandwich mounts used for the steel flat plate. With the tip of the wedge trimmed perfectly against the ground, it held together surprisingly well until the thin .04” steel itself began to bend.

With the slight success of this concept on Cloud of Suspicion, we scaled this up and down for use in all of our wedge bots, and it has actually become the primary wedge for Mango Farmer — which couldn’t afford the weight of our hinged wedge assembly. While these have proven successful for the most part, they tend to not work as well against large vertical spinners which usually catch the top corner of the steel, resulting in the wedge ‘bot being flipped or pushed back.

C MBAT ZONE’S GREATEST HITS

● by Kevin Berry

This month, once again, only one builder submitted to Greatest Hits. Come on, bot fighters! There are tons of events going on, and gourmet damage abounds!

Troy Mock, from Team Asian Invasion, is the Combat Zone Greatest Hits hero for submitting some RoboGames 2010 Greatest Hits. His beetleweight, Attitude, had the dubious honor of fighting two of Gene Burbeck’s bots: One Fierce Lawn Boy and One Fierce Round House. Despite the post-battle appearance of Attitude in these pics, Gene said Troy snapped the belt on OFLB, and on OFRH he ripped off some tape and scratched his back armor! In the currency of One Fierce, that’s some Great Hits!

Calling All Casualties

Before and after photos, a brief description of the fight, and the builder’s name can be submitted to me at LegendaryRobotics@gmail. com. Or, if you have an action shot that clearly shows what’s going on, those are welcome too! These don’t have to be current, and anything you can (legally) submit — clear back to the good old days of wooden bots and iron builders — is fair game. SV