COMPETITIONS/ORGANIZATIONS
- BattleBots:
8 events since 1999!
- 1999
Long Beach: Dr. Inferno and Missing Link battled mightily
- 1999
Las Vegas: Slugger slugged mightily
- 2000
San Francisco: Missing Link & Dr. Inferno Jr. fought mightily
- 2000
Las Vegas: Dr. Inferno Jr. combatted mightily
- 2001
San Francisco (May): Dr. Inferno Jr. won the lightweight division,
Towering Inferno hammered mightily
- 2001
San Francisco (November): Dr. Inferno Jr. won the lightweight rumbles,
Towering Inferno scuffled mightily
- 2002
San Francisco (May): Dr. Inferno Jr. won the lightweight division,
Towering Inferno warred mightily
- 2016
Los Angeles (April): The Disk O' Inferno danced with the best of
them
- BotBash:
Annual Phoenix, AZ event
- 1999:
Dr. Inferno won 3rd place in 12.5kg class, Missing Link won 3rd
place in 23kg class
- 2000:
Overpowered Box won 2nd place in the middleweights, Missing Link
tied for 3rd in points in the heavyweights, Tesseract took 3rd place
in demos
- 2001:
New 12lb lightweight Hell On Wheels debuted
- 2002:
Same-O Inferno won the antweight division & Lame-O was mid-pack,
13lb Hell on Wheels brought up the rear
- RoboJoust:
low-key robot scuffles in a Vegas trailer park!
- 2002:
Lame-O Inferno & Same-O Inferno swept with a 1-2 finish!
- Robotica:
The Learning Channel's take on the X-Games of extreme robot sports
- 2001:
Mini Inferno was infernally mighty
- Robot
Wars UK: the #1-rated show on the BBC, catch it on PBS in the
USA
- Robot
Wars US: where it all started, now defunct...
- Sozbots:
new 1-pound antweight competition--several competitions a year!
- 2002:
Lame-O Inferno scooped mightily to 4th place at Sozbots 1.2 in July!
- 2002:
Lame-O & Same-O Inferno ended up midpack in Sozbots 1.3 in August...
- 2002:
Same-O Inferno won Sozbots 1.4 in September!
- Steel
Conflict :
new Los Angeles competition
- 2002:
Hell on Wheels, Lame-O Inferno, & Same-O Inferno conflicted
mightily
OTHER
COMPETITORS
- Team
Coolrobots: Christian Carlberg and his non-uncool robots
- Robotcombat.com:
Jim
Smentowski and his thorough links and news, plus the world's
biggest combat robot parts store
- Team
Delta: Dan Danknick and his detailed robot-building pages
- Mutant
Robots: Donald Hutson's mutated fighting robots
ROBOT
RESOURCES
- 4QD:
maker of beefy electronic speed controllers
- All
About Circuits: engineering calculator tools, other electrical
engineering educational resources
- All
Electronics: new & surplus electronics--an adventure!
- I've
purchased electronics for hobbies and for Star Trek Borg suit lighting
effects from All Electronics
- American
Science & Surplus: a little wacky, but some goodies
- I've
bought all sorts of small tools and toys from AS&S--just reading
their print catalog is enormously entertaining!
- C
& H Surplus: awesome surplus store--never know what you'll
find!
- BWEI's
and Missing Link's drivetrain motors come from C & H
- Craftsman:
my favorite maker of tools, a division of Sears Roebuck
- Almost
all of my tools, Missing Link's gas engines, Dr. Inferno's drill
arms, Dr. Inferno Jr.'s reciprocating saw, Rampage & BWEI's
weapon motors & batteries are from Craftsman
- Custom
Circuit Boards: full in-house manufacturing capabilities for
high-quality prototype printed circuit board projects
- DIY
Hacking: open source projects for Arduino, Raspberry Pi, &
Intel Edison
- eBay
(industrial equipment page): find sweet deals on all sorts of
hardcore tools and parts
- E
= 0 Designs: Dr. Inferno ]|[ uses Ragebridges for drive &
weapons, & The Disk O' Inferno used Ragebridge 2s for the tail weapon
- EEWeb
Online Scientific Calculator: EEweb.com's online scientific
calculator is free. They also have some other online tools for Engineers.
- Futaba:
the premier name in radio control
- Almost
all Infernolab robots have been controlled by Futaba transmitters
& receivers
- Grainger:
another huge catalog, with many items for your shop & bots
- GoEngineer:
the biggest value-added reseller for SolidWorks, amazing CAD software
that I used to design parts of Dr. Inferno Jr. & Hell on Wheels,
as well as the entirett of Disko Inferno & The Disk O' Inferno,
not to mention other fun projects & some robot stuff that I designed
that's sitting on Mars right now...
- Harbor
Freight: inexpensive discount tools
- Dr.
Inferno Jr., Overpowered Box, & Mini Inferno's drive motors
were from Harbor Freight, as were the Doctor's circular saws
- JMAC
Supply Corp Robot Reference: a whole bunch of robot links!
- Kinematic
Models for Design, Digital Library from Cornell University:
a whole bunch of clever mechanisms!
- LEGO:
the best tool for small-scale robots and prototyping, especially the
Mindstorms kits
- 2A
& Tesseract remote-control fighting robots were made from LEGO,
as were 2 Towering Inferno prototypes
- LUGNET:
LEGO Users Group--best unofficial resource & lots of discussion
newsgroups
- Lynxmotion:
lots of cool kits and parts for small robots
- MatWeb:
enormous database of materials--compare strengths, densities,
etc.
- McMaster-Carr:
huge catalog of everything!
- So
many of my parts came from McMaster-Carr that I can't even begin
to list them...
- Mondo-Tronics
Robot Store: fun small kits & toys--good for learning
- Mouser
Electronics: all the electric and electronic stuff you need
- Lots
of tools and materials, plus most of Dr. Inferno's, Missing Link's,
& Dr. Inferno Jr's batteries and chargers came from Mouser
- Mr.
Tentacle's Torque/Amp-Hour Calculator: Steve Judd's cool utility
to help pick motors & batteries
- Novak
Racing: makes hobby speed controllers, good only for very small
robots
- Speed
controllers for Rampage & BWEI were Novak Roosters that took
a beating and still work
- NPC
Robotics : make & sell great motors/gearboxes/etc for bots
of all sizes--great support, too!
- Online
Metals: great source for metals and plastics in small quantities--good
prices, too
- Power-Sonic
Batteries : decent, inexpensive rechargeable batteries and chargers
- Dr.
Inferno, Missing Link, Dr. Inferno Jr., & Mini Inferno all run
off of Power-Sonice gel cells
- PTC:
Parametric makes powerful Pro/Engineer CAD software, great for designing
bots
- Towering
Inferno was designed entirely in Pro/Engineer before being built
- Robot
Science & Technology Magazine: print and web robot mag
- Robot
Books: excellent resource for handbooks, references, kits, toys,
etc.
- Rolling
Robots: local Los Angeles stores where you can buy kits, build
bots, have birthday parties, compete, etc.
- Sewell
Robotics Connection:
a good catch-all set of links
- Specialty
Tool and Bolt: every type of fastener you can imagine and much
much more
- Specialty
Tool supplied me with all the bits to assemble Towering Inferno,
Dr. Inferno, and Hell on Wheels,
and lots of other goodies
- Team
Delta: Dan makes and sells handy dandy electronics stuff geared
toward combat robots
-
Dan's various electronics & hardware have made it into many
of my bots
- Tekin
Electronics: makes hobby speed controls, good for very small
robots
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- All
my radio equipment and accessories, plus many more goodies, came
from Tower
- Vantec:
popular maker of awesome robot electronic speed controllers
- Dr.
Inferno, Missing Link, Dr. Inferno Jr., Mini Inferno, & Towering
Inferno are all driven through Vantecs
- VEX
(Innovation First): producer of high quality robot control systems
for FIRST (and combat) competitions
- Dr.
Inferno Jr.'s weapons and drivetrain were changed over to Victor
883 speed controllers, The Disk O' Inferno used VEX Victor BB controllers
for the drive motors & disk weapon mtor
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