Awww this is great to find I'm Mt Dew Camacho's Dad his radio was good he's just 6 years old with little hands😅😂 he had so much fun, your bot was super cool excited to see you get the bugs out
Stingray is quickly becoming a favourite antweight of mine - very excited to see you continue to optimize the build, and im excited to see even more bot designs from you!
Stingray is such a great idea for a drive only bot. Mixing thwack bots and wedge bots is so smart. And I never knew those toys were so good as ant-weights. Great video can’t wait for future projects and fight reports.
This explains what that strange tail print was for... Loctite is definitely a lesson to learn. But at least it didn't cause anything terrible to happen
👋 I wasn't at this event but I am part of Team Idiocracy with Mt. Dew Camacho and Frito Pandejo - was fun to stumble across this video in the wild! (I'm not sure if he was having radio issues - he's still getting the hang of driving)
Great video! A very fun thwackbot! As well as loctiting the set screw, a big tip in the UK we often file a U shape into the flat of the motor shaft for the set screw to sit in so it's more difficult to slip off. Other options is tap out to a larger set screw or drilling and tapping for a second screw in the bottom of the hub :)
I really love this bot. A lot of people would go with a more traditional wedge bot and call it a day, waiting until they can get a spinner on it, but you had a clever idea of a different direction. I don't know how viable it is at a competitive level, but regardless great bot.
Do you still have the AI packs, teams, arenas, components and robots for: Ironbot Jr., Plan B, RA2 Heavy Metal,and Megaman-RA2 Edition. And do you still have the components folder for all of the revolution 1-3 so I can get the robots to work?.
If I ever overhaul the design of Stingray, I'll definitely consider brushless drive. Still have too many spares for the current design that need to get smashed up before that happens though 😁
DO NOT OVERDO THE LOCKTITE. IT WILL GET STUCK AND YOU WILL HAVE TO USE A TORCH. Ask me how I know. Once you locktite them they should be fine from then on. The locking from the junk left in the threads has worked for me now for like 4 comps. I had more problems with the weapon on my beetle shaking the motor mounting screws loose and I always have to remember to get those fully locked too. No matter how balanced you think everything is one hit and everything will shake loose. It happens but it sucks to lose from that
I don't understand these... they ar e always advertised as the something of the biggest baddest killer robots...but to me, these appear so dumb...and a person comments actually.."it just drags and flails its weapon"- are there serious design limitations? IDK....meh....
