Plum Robotics

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Impressive.

What sort of RPMs you guys doing?

The airtime that is shown in those videos is awesome. Would be interesting to see how well we could handle your bot... The 15 lb competitions seems absolutely cutthroat at this point, with some extremely well designed bots.

Too bad you guys aren't going to California competition(you mentioned Rotunda Rumble as your alternative competition).
Are you going to be at the Miami Youth Fair end of this month?

No were actually from near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania so were competeing at our local event up here, but not at miami haha. Our advisor wasnt very happy with how the "Bots Worldwide" competition was run last year so thats why werent not attending.

As for RPM I'm not actually to sure with the new weapon motors, but we just beat the infamous Bloomsburg High Schools Executer on saturday by a knockout win and with a driver driving in only his second fight (his first about a 30 sec. KO) on saturday 3/14

Glad to see this! it's really too bad you aren't going to Cali.. we'll miss u guys!

that's a pretty impressive gouge on the drum in the first photo lol...

Dan Curhan wrote:

that's a pretty impressive gouge on the drum in the first photo lol...

We we like to extend our thanks to Humdinger 2 for that one

hehe just cause everyone loves pretty white sparks

yes. yes we do.

Alex posted a little profile on the RFL forum about our bot check it out and see what there saying:
http://forums.delphiforums.com/THERFL/messages/?msg=5829.1

vote for the top ten hits from our local competition prelims on youtube, we have a couple on there
https://www.youtube.com/user/calurobotics

First edit of our highlight video, more to come...

I spy that the side plates are on wrong. Still N' Shock should have the side plate that says "Jennison Corporation Apogee" and Aftershock should have the one that says "Jennison Corporation Respironics" That's just going off of looking at the other pictures here of AfterShock and Still N' Shock.
Still N' Shock also looks like it's been mirrored very oddly.

I spy also that there are no shadows, and, going of the other Still N' Shock photos, it looks like the weapon belt is on the wrong side.

I thought SNS had a drum as well...
Am i wrong?

Nope, never has
shockwave 2 was actually supposed to be a beater last year but in my building it within 3 weeks before nationals i didnt have time to get it cut out, sooooo I just stole one of the drums haha

Cody Harris wrote:

Nope, never has
shockwave 2 was actually supposed to be a beater last year but in my building it within 3 weeks before nationals i didnt have time to get it cut out, sooooo I just stole one of the drums haha

lol...nice

i was not very happy having to use it tho

Personally, I think eggbeaters are poo. So I don't see why you would be upset.

eh, eggbeaters should work out just fine, my opinion is that you should really make them from two materials (soft main body & hard teeth) and alter the shape a bit.

EDIT: tough main body & hard teeth

Jeff L wrote:

eh, eggbeaters should work out just fine, my opinion is that you should really make them from two materials (soft main body & hard teeth) and alter the shape a bit.

EDIT: tough main body & hard teeth

i think everyone makes them like that. the only good eggbeater i have seen so far is The Bull. But their weapon was poorly placed and kept falling off...including my match against them...and i don;t even have a weapon.

Was I right at all?

about the picture I mean.

Sean Rubin wrote:

Jeff L wrote:

eh, eggbeaters should work out just fine, my opinion is that you should really make them from two materials (soft main body & hard teeth) and alter the shape a bit.

EDIT: tough main body & hard teeth

i think everyone makes them like that. the only good eggbeater i have seen so far is The Bull. But their weapon was poorly placed and kept falling off...including my match against them...and i don;t even have a weapon.

Nope, pretty much 0 teams make them along the lines of what I'm thinking (will show you pictures in a week). It's either a 100% S7 steel eggbeater, or it's a badly made attempt at a dual material thresher (ex: weapons grade delrin & aluminum teeth ). Now, back to studying for my Physics II final! (don't even ask what that final entails in any kind of detail, it will make your head explode)

Wasn't Humdinger an eggbeater and didn't it do really well last year or the year before?

S7 is fine - for a while. Over time it'll just age and crack though (like Knightrous did in epic fashion).

Jeff, do you remember Humdinger or Humdinger 2?

yes, I do, but it used a solid chunk of metal like everyone else - unless those teeth are welded on there, that is.