44: Captain Phasma's Dildo
January 17, 2019Shownotes
Battlebots, Bugglebots, and Buh-SpaceX.
- Battlebots Basement Battles
- All now on the Battlebots YouTube channel
- Highlights:
- Bugglebots
- Heat 5 has aired since recording
- Heats just getting better and better
- Robots of interest
- Bourbon
- Hexagonal drum hype
- Mini Spinny
- PP3D, but small
- Wee Woo
- Viability of multibots
- Maximum Ogredrive
- Sawblaze, but small
- Saws are cool and everybody knows it
- No, Dragon King does not count as a modern heavyweight which used a saw
- Flick
- Design/build video
- SLS explained in 2 minutes
- SLS explained in 15 minutes
- TL:DW The uncured powder, confined within the bed and relatively compacted, provides stable support for new layers. This loose material falls away once the finished part is removed.
- SCD
- Sam has been converted
- Accelerometer noise and drift
- Hard Knox
- Dr Thwackenstein
- Apex BW
- Bourbon
- Removable links
- A silly way to lose
- Necessary at the weight class?
- Possible alternatives?
- Kit-built robots
- Competitiveness of certain kits which will remain nameless
- Possible difficulties with identical robots entering competitions
- For competitors
- For spectators
- Who is the target market?
- D2 kits are not as plug and play as this discussion makes them sound - internals still need to be bought and fitted separately
- Sam’s Stupendous SpaceX Sit-Rep
- Block 5 has been working well
- Landing abort/failure
- ‘Intelligent’ landing systems
- Human rating
- Uncrewed Crew Dragon test flight…soon?
- Texas does have a coastline. 300 miles of it.
- In-flight abort test…slightly less soon?
- Manned demo flight: 2/3 crew chosen chosen and announced
- Crew access walkway
- Sperm!
- BFR
- Now called ‘Superheavy’ and ‘Starship’
- Starship Hopper
- Block 5 has been working well
