Halo is back at Robot Ruckus 2019, and this time it brought a friend, 1-pound 1-wheeled meltybrain spinner Hit 'N Spin! For an in-depth discussion of our design performance, see the blog post: www.swallenhar... Thanks for watching!
Even discounting the pit at the end, Halo did enough damage to deserve to win. I don't think Mad Cat Disease would be able to move after that last hit. Bad luck and well done anyway.
Amazing designs! I'd love to see heavier versions of these in Battlebots. A Hit-n-Spin with a medieval mace war-hammer, or icepick, and a Mega-Halo would be epic!
Halo vs. Mad Cat Disease immediately made me think of 80's video game art on cartridges or arcade cabinets. They sometimes attempted to create a backstory for simple games like Arkanoid or Pong by portraying them as some kind of super futuristic robot event. Bar Robot vs. Circle Robot because that's all the graphics could really do at the time. Only thing missing is a space backdrop instead of a polycarbonate box.
I'm just sittin here watching robots destroy each other and watching the aftermath of the Xj1 fight at 5:40 and who do I see in the background but the man, the myth, the legend Ray Billings
The best melty brains out atm moment ! I think the lower speed higher mass is what makes yours so deadly as it seems like they transfer ALOT more energy than the usual verts and horizontals. Keep up the awesome work
Lumakid 100 Don’t really feel one way or another over the outcome but I think this actually raises a pretty good question: Should pitting be an instant loss? Now obviously, the reason why some competitions do require a count out is because their are a few situations where a robot could get out of the pit (like if a flipper lands in the pit upside down), but what about when it’s crystal clear that the robot physical cannot get out no matter how hard it tries (like with Mad Cat Disease)? Would it be fair to do a count out in some situations but not others? I’m honestly not sure.
In this one a pit equals a count out, its not like robot wars or something else, and i believe battlebots may also have a count for OOTAS too so its not really exclusive. Outside of that mad cat was mostly in charge of the match
Team Get Wrecked combat robots but still halo took no damage and Mad Cat only controlled him for 20 seconds, halo took out 1 side of drive and screwed up the wedge, there is no way that Mad Cat should have taken that
Hit 'N Spin reminds me of a weirdly shaped sword, also i swear you should name those things Heart Attack cause my god every time i saw them bounce torwards the pit my heart stopped for a second
Great robot. What is the total length of Hit N Spin. Would it be easy to scale up the a 3lb beetleweight with the same electronics, but have a bigger motor and wheel?
The pit is a count down in this competition and it may have happened right as or before the match ended, as such going off of what happened madcat wouldve arguably be robbed by the pit as it was in control most of the match and being aggressive
Being a competition with a pit, control probably was weighted heavily to stop it from being a spinnerfest. Plus the judges' scorecard likely didn't have a score for "last-second pitting"
Mad cat easily dominated halo. Halo managed only a single good hit at the end. Sure it was far more flashy but it did “more damage to the arena than the opponent” would be a tough call but I think mad cat did deserve the win.
Obviously it would be very hard to implement, but it would be cool if the spike could retract to avoid bouncing off walls and to keep bots from preventing you from spinning up. It would be hard to build a mechanism durable enough to not shear off upon impact, and it would introduce a potentially weak spot in the frame though.
Amazing how after you won 2nd place with a first-time build(a meltybrain, even!) even your joke bot performed quite decently(if not for its PLA casing) What if you print Hit n Spin's casing out of NylonG/NylonX? Just out of curiosity. And would you release the code as OpenMelt's successor?
Bro am amazed with both ur designs, how u control the directions of ur robots since u use their motors for spinning??, if i am rite which i know am not😂😂😂
Ok, I'm new here, can somebody explain to me what a 'meltybrain' is and why it's called that and they started popping up in my feed? I literally started watching these vids two weeks ago when Pawsitively Hissterical randomly popped up in my feed and I just started searching a cute slapping cat battle robot because it was funny. All I can think of when I see these things is "LETS BEYBLAAAAAAAAAADE!" But I have NO CLUE why they're called 'meltybrains'
