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Always a good day when Team Moray uploads. Way to start the new year off right 😎

Don't be disheartened. That thing hit with Tombstone-like power! Great tournament over all!

Nice! A tap out win! 🎉

Although it was a short fight, there were 2 fun moments for me. The Ripperoni style dance move at the beginning was fun, and when you both went upside down, I laughed a little. Good effort! Moray is really looking good!

Bro! Sick fight!

When two materials collide, the soft one deforms more, so the harder material “wins.” You really need to replace the PLA wedges with TPU if you can’t spare weight because of how squishy it is, or buy steel or titanium wedges from SendCutSend. As others have said, you can also buy tin snips and 0.8mm titanium from Fingertech robotics. You could even use the PLA as a spacer with Ti on top of it.

PLA is very brittle on impacts. Try TPU 85A, TPU 95A, or if you prefer stiff materials PLA+. If you can make weight you could even do 1 steel fork from SendCutSend (AR500 is my fave), or 2 aluminum forks (7075 is best, 6061 is acceptable but you should go for 7075 if possible).

For mounting brushed motors, a good way to do it is to design a feature in the chassis that hugs the flat sides of the motor itself. Great improvement so far!

I actually liked your chances going weapon on weapon with Carlton. Your disc looked big enough to hit his belt before his disc could hit you.

You are Pretty Good but you really need some Meta weal cards

Congratulations on the wins! Love seeing Moray as it evolves

Moray did pretty and is definitely showing improvement. The only thing I would suggest is to use aluminum or titanium wedges.

If you screw static forks to the front sides of the chassis, that will slightly squish to the floor and be a very effective ground game without the need for being hinged. Also, you can save lots of weight by printing your own wheel hubs and keeping them on with shaft collars, this could go into a possible TPU wedge, or a wider chassis design for less gyro effects. Awesome job so far, love the improvements!

Nice job with both wins! Huge improvements from your first even. I cant wait to see how you improve Moray before your next event!

Congratulations on getting your first ever win! Moray did pretty well at this event and the bot is definitely showing improvement.

Great recap! I use 2-3mm uhmw for my front armor. It can be self fabricated with heavy duty scissors or metal snips and a drill. It can be heat set into shape using a heat gun. It is sacrificial armor that lasts pretty long and can take a hit.

I made a similar design in college: You should heavily consider attaching the weapons at an angle. Them having a little bit of the effect of a vertical spinner lets the spinners “lift” the feet, making it way easier to move. Buy a separate BEC to plug into your main battery. That way you won’t need a separate battery for the receiver. Saves weight, and some competitions might not be happy about the receiver not being disable-able. I’ve also lost fights and fried electronics by forgetting to recharge receiver batteries.

Turn your mic volume down dude

It was great chatting with you at the Turkey Brawl, and this update video is fantastic! Seeing Karlton379 get a shoutout was awesome. You might want to experiment with moving the blade forward slightly so the weapon’s tooth can hit opponents at a lower point. Just be cautious-if it’s too far forward, you might end up flipping yourself with every hit.

As a competitor, I can say that being there fighting is unlike any experience ever. They legit have free snacks and drinks in the pits all event long and are genuinely very kind to us builders (plus ya know being surrounded by hundreds of other robot nerds is pretty awesome too lol)

i think one of the bots should become a drummer bots in a gig.. hahahahaha

Cool video! (That robot with the saw is pretty cool)

It was great meeting you at the event. Once again, I just wanted to say thank you so much for the amazing gift. It’s the single best thing I’ve ever gotten in my entire robot combat career.

Pls find my contact under this account, looking forward to further talk!

This isnt a gyro walker, its a reaction walker, droopies blades are angled slightly so one side lifts up as it rotates thus allowing it to walk, yours doesent do that so its not a gyrowalker since there are no gyroscopic forces involved with moving as it purely uses the reaction of the motor toruqe

Are you intersted in any video collab together? We're open to sponsor free service like 3DP/CNC'd parts. (PCBWay zoey)

Good to know you can actually use different attachments against different opponents

Ah so that's what those prints were for, neat!

Omg it's so cool

Seems like a lot of solid upgrades! I can attest that the Repeat Brushed are a great option for drive 😄 ran them on the first two versions of my Plastic Ant. Can't wait for the next fight report 😎

The bot I’m making is a viper lifter kit that is upgraded to what I hope is its full potential. I plan to add forks and extra armor to it. This is my first bot,so I plan to make a vertical spinner if this one does not work. Anyways, thanks again for all the help. You got another subscriber.😉

How much does the top carbon fiber panel cost each for moray? I plan to use some carbon fiber for my robot.

Awesome! I really like the new upgrades you did to moray. I am a new bot builder and would like to know how difficult is it to print tpu?

Wow, this looks very good! Awesome to see that gyro too. I would recommend testing inverted driving with the bar if you haven’t already. The geometry of it will keep the bot more flat to the ground when upside down and potentially make it harder to self right by colliding into the wall.

Looking very cool! Have you considered making a single toothed weapon? That would give you much better energy delivery at the same total kinetic energy.

Love the dino head weapon upright!

You should turn this into a competitive robot :-)

Excellent video! Just to point out, the hit you land at 8:50 stopped your weapon. That says to me that your weapon got enough purchase to dump all it's energy into the hit.

😂

Percy approved! Brilliant! 🎉 And I'm excited to see what "Doomba" idea you have next!

This was a fun video. Always happy to see more gyro walkers in the sport.

Fun fact: most events don't check weight after the the initial safety test or at all. You can run whatever config you want in the future but do design for the weight allowance and don't abuse it. Event organizers will allow a bit of leeway especially for new builds.

On the battery VS speed thing: electric motors are based on RPM per Volt (commonly called KV), so higher voltage means they run faster. Running the 2S 7.4v meant you were 33% slower on your drive and weapon. Also, because torque is based on amps, and Volts equals amps times resistance (with motor resistance being assumed constant), a 50% increase in voltage will also be a 50% increase in amps and therefore 50% increase in torque. This means more pushing power and better acceleration on both the weapon and drive.

Very important lesson here: ALWAYS have something as hard as a weapon (titanium, Ar4/5/600 steel, ETC) for your wedge or front armor when fighting horizontals. You want them to bounce or glance off, but they will dig in if they hit plastic. This is especially true for verts. They will bounce off your wedge/front into your weapon if you have a solid front, but will rip and tear your front and launch you away if you have a soft front.

hey good job we all start somewhere,im new to ants myself and debuting an ant myself, funnily enough aerators goin to the event too so thatll be a test. Luckily my teammates who have won a few events have been giving me good tips. I hope you continue to improve the design,i have some recommendations for moray, for top and bottom use 1mm Carbon fiber, its super light and durable,i use it on beetles all the time as well. have 2 uprights and get motor w a long shaft that goes through the other upright, itll help keep it from going askew and just put a bearing on the other side to keep it in place. Uprights you should change to quarter inch uhmw. UHMW wont bend,itll just chip away but in ants and beetles its extremely common and effective also cheap. see you doing repeat brushed which is also the biggest improvement to get. Hope this helps and good luck w the future version of moray!

Fun to see CRBL getting featured in the video! (Great video too!)

Nice video! I'd recommend switching to the repeat robotics mk2 brushed motors. They are a lot more durable than the silver sparks. You probably should also make the dino upright longer so that you can spin your weapon upside down.

One of the RABID officers here - awesome video and really looking forward to having you back! I greatly appreciate the comedic timing in this vid haha

Great video!