Thanks Jim! Project LiftOff is a brilliant melty and a huge inspiration, was great to meet and talk to you too! I'm hoping to take my melty code to the next level now!

so much this

You gotta commit! and when theres a whole workshop of tools for builders to use, it would be rude not too!

It absolutely will! The other bot I took, Squeakamus has google eye recesses in the front armour and I really like how that came out

I was super happy with how it did this time! I do just need to get it working a little better, or at least not taking as much damage Theres more NHRL to come! it was a blast [×~×]

Thanks for having me, it was so much fun!!

Definitely more to come from this melty. its soo close now and I've got some hints on improving the code

That would be so cool! might be a little hard to frame up, but if you could pull it off the footage would be exceptional

Witch Doctor did some tests for I think preparing for S6 where they filmed at pretty high framerate, they hit a tantrum-shaped steel brick, a tooth broke off and the entire bot flexed back and forth from the vibration of the now unbalanced weapon, just incredible to see something you think is rigid just flex like a piece of rubber. The video is called "Inside Our Battle With Brushless // Witch Doctor Pit Pass Ep 2" at around the 1 minute mark in.

Very cool! It would be much easier to capture on camera hitting a stationary block

maybe, angling to be more tangential to the spin? not sure, I'm keen to get the chassis stronger before messing with tweaks like that

Thanks for the info, I'm not a mechanical engineer so most of this stuff is learnt by doing. I think I'm going to go back to a shoulder bolt for the next version

@@TeamPanicRobotics If you've ever heard an interview with Donald Hutson, you'll probably recognise the name "chromoly steel", since he basically builds all his bots out of the stuff. 4130 is a form of chromoly steel where along the iron and carbon there is a bit of manganese, chromium, silicon and molybdenum to form a stronger alloy. Basically the higher you go up in hardness, the more brittle it becomes. Tool steels are incredibly hard (so they don't wear as much) but once you cross the "limit" (yield strength) it just cracks and breaks instead bending (and in most cases flexing back to mostly original form after the impact). For weapon impactors you generally want the highest hardness you can afford since you're probably hitting hardened steel as well (at the risk of the weapon shattering/exploding), but for axles I think chromoly or stainless steel would be a better option, as that is still harder than regular medium carbon steel used in shoulder bolts but still has a bit to give instead of super hardened tool steels.

@@TeamPanicRobotics I'd bit a little worried about the shoulderbolt shearing in the threads if it got a similar whack to whatever caused the S7 to crack unless it's a decent thread size (M10 should be solid at a guess, M8 maybe slightly on the edge), although it'll probably also be more ductile so could equally be fine. Look forward to seeing how it goes in the next iteration!

I'd aim to mount it so the threads are not in shear, basically have a tool steel mount (like the current one) but thicker with an 8mm hole in it, so the shaft is through the mount (hopefully taking the shear loads) and the nut is just there to retain it at the back

Thanks! Still needs to be a little more durable, but its getting there

@@TeamPanicRobotics seeing that thing rocket against the arena walls like a pinball, i was half expecting it to blow apart into pieces from all the ricochet. The sheer speed that thing kicks off the walls is pretty ballistic haha Cant wait to see what you have in plan for melty brain

Wait... off the other end?!?!? WOAH! thats some serious energy!!

@@TeamPanicRobotics yeah. I guess that's what happens when your robot spins so fast it looks like a circle

"Maybe just figure out meltybrains" you say to a guy who has had multiple different meltybrains competing with a good degree of success in numerous competitions over the last few years, including both conventional designs and a dual horizontal spinner meltybrain. Dude, there's not many people in this sport who have more experience with meltybrains than him! When you're working with an idea as unusual as this one, something that's completely new and has never been done before, you're often going to be in a position where the best thing to do is just throw it in the arena and see what happens. You can theorize as much as you want, but you won't know how it handles the stresses of a proper fight unless you give it one. You build it, you test it as best you can, you fight it, and then you use what you've learnt from those fights to improve the design.

there aren't many people more experienced with meltybrains than team panic. if anyone is qualified enough to try and pull this off, you're watching them.

yeah maybe, but its still a fun problem to try and solve, I'm not sure I'll ever see an advantage to the verts over a traditional melty but I'm still keen to try

Huh, good to know Definitely will change my weapon mount for the next one

haha basically yeah!

It was a good one! it was a little sad you where busy and couldnt be cage side with me Stag is such a tank! Going to need to hit a whole lot harder before I come back

They are one of the best in the melty game right now

maybe next time, I'll definitely be going back

good to hear. @@TeamPanicRobotics

Flea's are a very rare class unfortunately. I only built one because one of the other guys I fight ants with promised to build one. You might need to find someone to build one to fight against you

Thanks alot man. I love watching youre videos btw