started up a blog
(anybody got a better team name suggestion?)

http://planz.blogspot.com/

weapon testing for Plan C
mwaaaa
;->

ooooh this is gonna be fun tehehehe, we have the solution to the spinners.
not going to be ready for the next bout but mebe the one after that.

now to wrap a bot around it. hmmm
current wep weight looking like ~3kg or so.
hopefully this bot will be carbon armored to save some weight.


now on to the radio upgrade for Plan-B

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I've already got my solution planned for that

Just won't be here for a few months,
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new blog
fresh piccies
some high res
http://planz.blogspot.com

can html be done in here?

Looking good Jake! Can't wait to see it in action. Scoopy made a mess of Singularity's battery, who will be the first to complain when there IBC is stamped into the first lead plate of their batteries

Have you thought about testing it on something like some 5mm-10mm polycarb or some 3mm stainless steel yet?

Keep the blog going, it's in my bookmarks
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we are making multiplle tips
a "lethal" and a "slightly less lethal" version
which will hopefully mean we can compete against everybody without worrying too much about putting a hole through their IBC first shot first round of the day.

course against bots where there is signifitant lethality present against us (no... i'm not looking at nick while i'm saying that) well we might not have the luxury of a non-lethal response ;->

we'll wait untill we have the propper armor peircing tips and the like before we go about testing it against tougher stuff, and get it into a more final form, hopefully the tweaks should net us around 20-40% more performance (at any power)

on a good note it looks so far like the final version wont destroy itself much at all.. *bonus*

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Are you going to try something like a tungsten punch tip? You could make up several shaped ones, like a star shaped one, a triangle and for the ladies a love heart shaped one, so you can put custom air holes in peoples robots for them at no extra expense
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heh
we had thaught "scull ring"

though we have a problem now

we havent got a new wepon idea for Plan D
not even the idea phase...
slack

No weapon idea for Plan D!

How about a crusher? None of them around right now.
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we've tried but cant come up with a design that meets our requirements and still fits in the weight

What batteries did u use in plan b again sorry. werent they drill nicads bacause u blew up the others. second day i thought they were good ones but just wondering.
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both
drill nicads on day 1
then we made a new half new nimh half blown up nimh pack we used in the grudge match etc on the second day.

how much would you charge to put "speed holes" in my robot?
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doing some back of the envelope calculations
at its current energy level we are roughly equivilent to what you would use to hunt light big game (think person sized)

at operating power with optimisations we are at large game levels (800 pound, buffalo kinda thing)

at max design press we are at large thick skinned dangerous game levels (elephent etc)

and at burst pressure we excede that quite nicley ;->

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i'm not looking at nick while i'm saying that

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you fall into our "overly lethal" range
you qualify for some (not so) small holes ;->