Very cool! That looks like a lot of fun! It was a nail biter but you pulled through with a come from behind knockout in the final round! My favorite part is the coach's comments, "Be aggressive, honey!" 😂😂😂
Congratulations on the well deserved win! Karlton379 was simple a joy to watch. Speaking of, I’m curious as to how you came up with the name, specifically the 379 part?
Thanks! Karlton379 became the moniker the boys and I coined for our Gyarados Pokémon. Our robot was engineered to pack a punch much like Gyarados, so the name felt perfectly suited!
@@GotterRobotics Spinners of whatever kind are usually blunt force weapons. They don't so much slice as punch a hole! About the only spinner that actually cuts or slices uses a thin blade. Most people don't use them since they are fragile and easy to bend/break. Same for drills. I was thinking of designing an overhead drill weapon using an HSS end mill. it would be much tougher than a drill, quicker to penetrate and would probably take a few hits and still work OK.
You are probably using a flight controller of some kind? It has an IMU on board and can detect if you are upside down or not. You've done a decent job of mapping your controls so they work in the same orientation on the controller whether you are upside down or not. I can't tell from your level of control that you right side up or not. I'm going to say I was wrong about drum spinners...they don't get under your edges all that much and throw you. now I'm curious about vertical spinners throwing you! I could swear your height would be a problem, but I think so far it's not.
I am not actually doing anything fancy with the controls. When I am upside down I focus more on pivoting than moving forward. I agree on the "mid-height" being a potential liability. It is still a running experiment, but it has worked well for me so far.
@@GotterRobotics Oh really? So you are just using steering backwards when you are flipped over? Well you've practiced. People that don't map their controls flipped often times are less controlled in their movements since they have to translate in their head.
@@GotterRobotics Depending on what receiver you are using and if it has an IMU on board, some will invert all the controls for you so you don't have to manually invert anything. Lots of transmitters can also map a switch to invert certain control functions. It would still require you to notice your bot is flipped over and then flip a toggle switch, but after that your controls would all work the same flipped over or not.
@@de-bodgery I did that with my fairy running a malenki nano HV. My ants are brushless running Readytosky FS2A 4CH Receiver AFHDS 2A. Unfortunately that can't invert with a switch.
