Servo - January 2014

onto his back and then drove him into the pit. By then, the pit was so full that Angry Bot was almost able to self-right using the carcasses and get back into the fight, but alas he wasn't. He still ended up getting third in that battle with Caribou deservedly taking the win.

The team of Cayden and Ethan (and Katy) ended up winning second place in the Antweight class. I told you the results might surprise you. They got a really cool trophy and had a great time. Their dad had the biggest smile of the weekend. Overall, the entire event was awesome and I look forward to the next one.

Wash, Rinse, Repeat

So, where do we go from here? Well, the whole way home I got to hear how they both wanted saw blades on their robots for the next event. Talk about one proud papa!

Once we got home, we started drawing pictures of robots and ultimately settled on a small wedged robot with a vertical saw blade. The design is a loose interpretation of Verbal Irony — a very successful Ant that used to fight the Florida circuit years ago.

I'll make two identical clones and then we'll start work on a fully enclosed arena so they can spar safely. In other words, we get to start the process all over again with new designs and two little builders that have been bitten by the bug.

Look for more details on these bots and our mini arena in a future issue of SERVO. SV

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