I've seen videos of people who actually mounted a gun to an octorotor with a solenoid to pull the trigger, it'd be impossible to aim and the recoil spazzes it out hard. and that was just a 9mm.
there's a south african company that sells an octorotor with an inbuilt pellet gun meant to fire nonlethal pepper balls as a riot control tool. ironically enough one of them crashed at a mining strike and killed a bunch of people because it's so big and heavy
All of these robots look like they would be a heap of scrap from one cannon shot
Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood
my battle bot is called "Robert EEEEEEEEEE!! Lee" and it's essentially just a civil war era cannon on a metal frame pointing downwards hooked up to a motion sensor that goes off and fires if anything gets close. The frame has to be strong enough to take a point blank cannon shot
I figured out how cannons work and yes you can fire a cannon downwards, like down a hill because it's packed tight EZ WIN
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Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson
an RC car with a laser on it would last maybe 2 seconds against and actual battle bot.
That design is shit too.
Battlebots shows are kind of retarded because there are actually some objectively superior designs that kind of make the competitions pointless.
In general the #1 best design is any form of "spinner", because you can build up a ridiculous amount of momentum in a good spinner that literally no other weapon design can even remotely match, like it's so not close that it's not even funny. Flippers are the #2 but you can build a spinner that is immune to flippers.
Anything that isn't one of these, is fucking pointless.
(But the Boomba - as it is called - is hardened and uparmored, and the claymore is located more at the front. They're very directional so the Boomba will probably survive.)