BOTBASH
2000, MESA [MAY 00]
Cruising
over the obstacle course ramp [photo: Lauren Herold]
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Setting
up for capture-the-flag [photo: Lauren Herold]
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Trying
to flip over Gator
in combat [photo: Lauren Herold]
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Got
him jammed against the wall [photo: Lauren Herold]
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Gator
riding up on Missing Link [photo: Lauren Herold]
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Starting
up the chainsaw for fight with Sublime
[photo: Lauren Herold]
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The
aftermath of the carbide chainsaw [photo: Lauren
Herold]
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Jerome
Miles and his well-ventilated bot [photo: Lauren
Herold]
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Exchaning
pointy blows with Toe
Crusher [photo: Lauren Herold]
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Toe
Crusher & Missing Link poking fun at each other
[photo: Lauren Herold]
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Taking
a swing at the Green Dragon [photo: Lauren Herold]
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KCAL9
NEWS LIVE DEMO [FEB 00]
Christian
& I setting up in the studio parking lot
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Missing
Link & Toe Crusher sizing each other up
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Chainsaw
clutch forcibly removed from engine by way of fatigued crank
shaft
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Chainsaw
engine's exposed crankshaft stump
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Final
Score: Missing Link:1, chain
link fence: 0
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Boo-boo
on the empty parking lot
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GROWN-UPS
PRIME-TIME SITCOM ON UPN
[JAN-MAY 00]
The
Sony Culver City Studios (the mansion from Gone With the Wind)
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On
the set of the high-tech software company, Seluron
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4 bicycle
lights give it eyes, a mouth, and an antenna thingy
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Bike
handlebar tassles make for goofy hair, silver tape covers Craftsman
chainsaw's logo
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Random
computer circuit board (modem?) makes it look high tech. They did
name him "Circuits" after all
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They
said they wanted a more "human" look, so they wrapped
it in beige fur...
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We
ran the chainsaw after the studio audience left (darn safety rules)
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BATTLEBOTS
LONG BEACH [AUG 99]
WEAPON
CONFIGURATIONS [SUMMER 98]
Scuba
spear guns & gas-powered circular saw
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Pointy
ramming pokers & gas-powered chainsaw
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Gas-powered
circular saw & pointy ramming pokers
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Gas-powered
chainsaw & scuba spear guns
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Carbon
fiber armor over chainsaw gas tank
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Scuba
spear guns with servo-actuated triggers
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Case-hardened steel pointy ramming pokers
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Explaining the spear guns at the SORC meeting
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CONSTRUCTION
[FALL 97-SUMMER 99]
Drivetrain:
surplus motors, speed reducers, wheels, titanium wiener
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Ball
bearing speed reducer: high efficiency, quiet, no backlash
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Motor
drives speed reducer through flexible coupling, steel
float wheel clamped to reducer
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Concentric
rings to float the motors in the center of the wiener
shell
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Drivetrain
installed in wiener, tire tread of 14 epoxied-on vacuum
cleaner belts
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Assembled
drivetrain. Bolts center drivetrain in wiener, motor
wires snaking out of top
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Electronics
box mounted to wiener. Holds radio, speed control, 12V
7Ah battery
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Contents
of electronics box: big battery, Vantec speed controller,
radio
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Craftsman
gas-powered chainsaw trigger assembly removed |
Chainsaw
engine throttle servo (top left), carbon/kevlar mounting
panel, cheesy caster wheels (which I quickly replaced)
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Assembled
for the first time!
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Note
door hinges mounting chainsaw to wiener--ended up being
too floppy
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Carbon
fiber armor later added to electronics box
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