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July 21, 2011 at 11:57 am
(July 21, 2011 at 11:52 am)edk141 Wrote: Those RC robots are pretty cool as well. Must suck if you build a robot and it gets torn to shreds, though
Not at all, if they were to get torn to shreds they weren't good enough, natural selection in progress. That hasn't happened to me in 10 years though.
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July 21, 2011 at 12:05 pm
(July 21, 2011 at 11:57 am)leo-rcc Wrote: (July 21, 2011 at 11:52 am)edk141 Wrote: Not at all, if they were to get torn to shreds they weren't good enough, natural selection in progress. That hasn't happened to me in 10 years though.
But if you spent weeks working on a robot isn't it a bit sad if a slightly better robot rapes it? Waste of parts as well if it gets smashed up, don't know what you're using exactly ofc but some of the things I can imagine you would have, li-ion batteries, servos etc. are fairly expensive are they not? must be cash down the drain if that stuff all gets wrecked
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July 21, 2011 at 12:26 pm
(July 21, 2011 at 12:05 pm)edk141 Wrote: But if you spent weeks working on a robot isn't it a bit sad if a slightly better robot rapes it?
This is part of the sport, if nothing ever gets damaged it wouldn't be robot combat. You always risk damage in every mechanical sport, whether it is driving cars or battling robots. And I've lost more money in parts for RC helicopters than in 10 years of robot combat. btw, a new robot takes more than a couple of weeks.
(July 21, 2011 at 12:05 pm)edk141 Wrote: Waste of parts as well if it gets smashed up, don't know what you're using exactly ofc but some of the things I can imagine you would have, li-ion batteries, servos etc. are fairly expensive are they not? must be cash down the drain if that stuff all gets wrecked
Not that much. If your robots gets damaged besides the armour pretty much everything can be re-used in another robot or it gets repaired. The biggest costs for us are the motors and the armour. The rest survives pretty much everything, we designed them that way.
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July 21, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Robots are sooooo cool! 
Quite a nice variety of hobbies people have got here ^_^
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July 21, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Darwinian, PM me about a chess set buddy, I'm seriously thinking of snagging one..lol.
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July 21, 2011 at 12:34 pm
I like chewing gum and kicking ass.
And I'm all outa gum.
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July 21, 2011 at 12:39 pm
(July 21, 2011 at 12:34 pm)Napoleon Wrote: I like chewing gum and kicking ass.
And I'm all outa gum.
...
That sounds familiar, somehow.. 
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July 21, 2011 at 12:42 pm
(July 21, 2011 at 12:39 pm)Kayenneh Wrote: ...
That sounds familiar, somehow..
Duke Nukem methinks...
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July 21, 2011 at 1:29 pm
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(July 21, 2011 at 10:59 am)Darwinian Wrote: Hmmm..
- Making chess sets, then selling them on eBay. Buy Now
- Growing my hair.
- Annoying my son by pretending I'm racist like Terry Jones' character clearing up after Mr. Creasote in The Meaning of Life.
- Driving around the country taking my daughter to gigs.
- Procrastinating about learning to play the guitar.
- Programming in Delphi 7, php, javascript and whatever else I can get to work.
- D.I.Y. dentistry.
- Watching Babylon 5 from S01E01 and from the end of the shadow wars to the last episode at the same time.
- Cosmology.
- Bit of physics.
- Astronomy.
- Natural History.
- Predicting the future of mankind over the next few million years.
- Other stuff.
You have a guitar!
we could jam together man.
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July 21, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Astronomy, biology, physics, geology, history.
Hiking, road biking, camping, reading, photography, home improvement, building ship models
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