Servo - August 2016

26 SERVO 08.2016

appreciate the Fairyweight class even more. As soon as my fighting was done, I already thought of more ideas for new bots and how to improve Denise.

Hopefully, the Fairyweight class will boost in numbers in the Northeast, and Denise will reign supreme. (I can hope, can’t I?) SV

Glasgow Kiss is Team Rolling Thunder’s latest creation; it is a 30 lb under cutter robot that had its first competition at the Franklin Institute last year. This article is the third installment of a three-part series covering the initial design, build, and post-event analysis for future design changes. This third article gives an in-depth analysis of how Glasgow Kiss performed at the Franklin Institute event and improvements that were made to the robot in anticipation of the next major event it would be attending: Motorama 2016.

All in all, I was very pleased with Glasgow Kiss’ performance at the Franklin Institute. The bot went 3-2 at the competition, earning second place, and I believe it showed the potential to be a really competitive bot within the 30 lb weight class. My first fight of the event was against “Drumthing Else,” a vertical drum bot with a solid wedge across the front (Figure 1).

I was actually fairly concerned for this fight as Drumthing Else was built by veteran builder, Alex Horne, who has had the bot for a few years to get the kinks worked out. In addition, Horne is a great driver who might be able to stop my blade and not let me