Team Fission Combat Robotics

 Due to flexible nature of the TPU bulkheads we have used at Dojo, they allowed the weapon to flex which melted parts of the bulkhead. This led me to design some 8mm HDPE bulkheads to resolve this issue. However, this gave us another issue: where to get them made? Thankfully, the computer science department at the University of St Andrews was able to help us, and these parts look amazing! Many thanks to them! Because of how many horizontal spinners are going to Burgh, I now have a total of 4 wedges, one of which is solid TPU! The robot also weighs in 7g under the limit with four forks and a TPU lid, and spins up with the new weapon ESC. Spare wheels have been cast, and we’re pretty much ready for the weekend. Let’s hope it goes well!

 I promised a full event report, so here it is! Upon arriving at Dojo, we unpacked our stuff and got the robot set up in its heaviest configuration. This weighed at 1.496 kg, a whole 4g underweight! Good start! Before the final fight list was drawn, Baby Dead Bod was forced to drop out of the competition due to a broken weapon motor, meaning we wouldn't have to fight it for once!  Exposure's first fight was against Boom Zoom, a well-driven and aggressive lifter. As it was my first time fighting with the new version, I was nervous about fighting such a well-controlled robot. At the start of the fight, I span up and spent some time trying to get a good angle and also avoid being pinned or flipped over. I managed to hit his forks, inverting him, and after he self-righted I got round the back and pushed him into the wall, which caused him to be launched over the divider wall! I wasn't expecting anything like that to happen! (Thanks to Thomas Yau for sending us this footage earl...

 What? Somehow we ended up getting second place with the new version of Exposure! I will post the event write up later this week...