August 20, 2017 Download MP3
- Followup
- The Heat E line-up
- Whiteboard matches
- Re-re-opening the engineering wound
- ‘Dave Lowry’
- Ryan’s tries to clarify his position for the [n]^th time
- Battlebots
- WTF is Battlebots?
- The key differences with Robot Wars
- 2015 Highlight reel
- How to find the shownotes. Which you clearly already know how to do. Because these are the show notes. And you are reading them. Well done I guess?
- The bracket
- WTF is Battlebots?
- Group 1
- HERE BE SPOILERS!
- Tombstone:
- Black Ice:
- What does it actually…do?
- The 3 ‘weapons’
- Dan Barry,
- Fights: Qualifier vs Skorpios & Bad Kitty, vs Tombstone
- What does it actually…do?
- Escape Velocity:
- Overdrive:
- Sam needs to start rhyming
- 2015 Overdrive
- Ryan is bothered by a lack of gyro-dancing
- Fights: vs Escape Velocity
- Group 2
- Brutus
- 2015 Witch Doctor vs 2016 Brutus
- Ryan doesn’t like gimmicks
- Asymetric/single tooth disc design
- Fights: Vs Moebius, vs Lockjaw, vs Tombstone
- Moebius
- Ray Billings vs Peirce Hawthorne - because apparently somebody else also though this
- Yeti
- What Ryan thinks Alaska is like
- Sam considers quitting the podcast
- Fights: vs Lockjaw, vs Lucky, vs Tombstone
- Lockjaw
- Brutus
- Deconstructing the show
- Sports broadcasting
- Presenters
- Samantha Ponder
- Kenny Florian & Chris Rose
- Faruq Tauheed
- The pit reporters
- The arena-side reporter
- The tale of the tape: Less informative than a Bill Nye Netflix series
- Presenters
- Online info
- Competitor profiles
- Competition stats (aka ‘sports information’)
- Robot Wars wiki vs Battlebots wiki
- Converting from lbs to more civilised units
- Robot sponsorships
- Sports broadcasting
- Group 3
- ICEwave
- Full body spinner?
- Stalling petrol engines
- Sneaky paintwork
- Fights: vs Sub Zero, vs Nightmare
- Sub-Zero
- Sam continues to be annoyed by ugly welding
- Struggling to remember the weight limit
- Fights: vs ICEwave
Stinger- Stinger: the Killer Bee
- Gratuitous flames
- Modular weaponry
- Effective spinner-killing
- Fights: vs Nightmare, vs Mega Tento (US only)
- Nightmare
- Estimating the height
- Ryan is sure he rememberes the fight with Beta and is almost entirely wrong
- ‘Self righting’ system
- Old disc vs new disc
- Fights: vs Stinger TKB, vs ICEwave, vs Beta
- ICEwave
- Group 4
- Beta
- Two grown men fall in love with a furious limpet for approximately 5 minutes
- Design details: Hammer head, crooked arm, armour hinges, weapon motor and mechanism, Beta website
- Breaking the floor
- Fights: vs Lucky, vs Overhaul (US only), vs Nightmare (US only), vs Tombstone
- Lucky
- Cobalt
- Comparisons with Carbide
- Bombshell won or Cobalt lost?
- Fights: vs Overhaul, Vs Bombshell :(
- Overhaul
- Becoming Biteforce: a winning paintjob?
- Fights: vs Cobalt, vs Beta (US only)
- Beta
- The judges
- The judging criteria: defining aggression
- Beta vs Tombstone
- Celebrity/guest judges
- The judging criteria: defining aggression
- Armchair Engineering: Flipper mechanisms
- Gassing about gasses: a plea for more information
- Mechanisms
- The classic ‘BritWedge’ flipper
- The Bronco/SubZero ‘launcher’
- The Escape Velocity…thing…
- Lucky’s 4-bar lifter/flipper
006: Manufacturing Controversy
August 12, 2017 Download MP3
- Follow-up
- Episode 4
- Foxic: winner of an fight ft. terrible live commentary.
- Episode 5
- Welding and working with Aluminium.
- The original Heat E lineup ft. excellent detective work.
- Reopening the Jellyfish engineering wound. (skip to 30mins to avoid. We won’t blame you.)
- The engineering mindset & formal education.
- ‘Solved’ problems and best practices.
- Learning to be creative - John Cleese on ‘playing’
- Ryan doesn’t know how to define the terms of his argument
- Episode 4
- Melee 1
- Melee 2
- Head to Heads
- Ironside 3 vs Eruption
- Carbide vs Aftershock
- The arena does its job
- The BBC spoiler policy - Conker 3 in an excellent battle
- Aftershock vs Ironside 3 The fixening
- Carbide vs Eruption
- Aftershock vs Eruption Hurting the house robots
- Carbide vs Ironside 3
- Final Carbide vs Eruption Carbide vs the House Robots
- Ratings (spoiler alert)
- Ryan’s Robot Rank-O-Rama
- Armchair Production
- Re-working the format
005: Tomato Can
July 22, 2017 Download MP3
- Follow up
- The costs of Chaos 2 and Frostbite
- The pit button, how does it work?
- Melee 1
- Melee 2
- Conversations with Sethu Vijayakumar
- No-one has human rated launch capability to the Moon, let alone Mars
- Focus rings on Martian GoPros
- Crackers, Smash and the rules of Robot Wars
- Coyote volunteer for a pasting
- Carbide vs. Apollo 2 - The Sparkening
- Armchair engineering
- Armour
- Hydroforming
004: Health, Safety, and Smoking Motors
July 13, 2017 Download MP3
- We’re live!
- Ryan feels terrible about last episode’s audio
- Follow up
- Foxic wins a fight
- Facts and figures
- Melee 1
- Melee 2
- Pulsar vs. Ironside 3
- Supernova vs. Frostbite
- Conversations with Lucy Rodgers
- Big hits
- Ratings
- Armchair engineering
- Weaponry
- Kan-opener
003: The Ventoning
June 27, 2017 Download MP3
- Stealing logos
- Follow up
- Foamcore robots
- Round 1
- Melee 1
- Melee 2
- Round 2
- Thor vs. Concussion
- MR Speed Squared vs. Heavy Metal
- Conversations with Noel Sharkey
- Round 2 cont.
- Heavy Metal vs. Concussion
- Thor vs. MR Speed Squared
- MR Speed Squared vs. Concussion
- The definition of armament
- Round 2 cont.
- Heavy Metal vs Thor
- Tungsten hammers
- Heavy Metal vs Thor
- Final
- Concussion vs. Thor
- Armchair engineering
- Omnidirectional wheels: how do they work?
- X Robots
- Strafing robots
002: Legitimate Sporting Competition
June 15, 2017 Download MP3
- Follow-up
- Jellyfish: The Saga Continues
- Round 1 - Group Battles
- Round 2 - Head to Head
- Behemoth vs. Eruption
- PP3D vs. Cherub
- Eruption vs. Cherub
- PP3D vs. Cherub
- PP3D vs. Behemoth
- Noel Sharkey vs. The Urge to Say ‘Amazon’
- Round 2 cont.
- PP3D vs. Eruption
- Cherub vs. Behemoth
- Round 3 - Final
- Eruption vs. Cherub
- Armchair Engineering
- Transmitter Setups
001: Ego of an Aloof Engineer
May 20, 2017 Download MP3
- Hiding a trophy
- Is Robot Wars a TV show or a competition?
- Round 1 - Group Battles
- Melee 1
- Melee 2
- Round 2 - Head to Head
- Sabretooth vs. Terrohurtz
- Rapid vs. Aftershock
- Aftershock vs. Sabretooth
- Terrorhurtz vs. Rapid/Jellyfish
- Terrorhurtz vs. Aftershock
- Jellyfish vs. Sabretooth
- Round 3 - Final
- Aftershock vs. Sabretooth
- Lamenting about the format