THE RUSTY EPISODE, a inside look in the Legend! [Builder Blog Ep 55]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- This is the episode you have all been waiting for!
This week, Zach and Diana travel across the country to visit Battlebots competitor and fan favorite robot: RUSTY!!! Dave Eaton takes us on a tour of the Farm where Rusty's are raised. We go DEEP inside to see what makes Rusty works, as well as learn from Dave why the NEW RUSTY was unable to compete this year.
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My 9yr old son spent our last trip to his Grandparent's farm trying to convince his Grandpa to give him the blade off his tractor rotary cutter bush hog so he could build a battlebot with it. I think we got a future Dave Eaton here in the repurposed farm equipment builder category! He also wants to know when Dave is going to stark making actual Rusty plushes like he had this last season.
Rusty sitting with his ovner on his own chair with a blanket is the most adorable thing I have seen last mounth)
Literally the kitchen sink, it's 100 years old, cast iron and has survived 3 tornadoes! Nothing is gonna kill that thing!
except a big FU vert
@@bami2Deep 6?
It's good to see garage build bot still fighting in the machine build bot era
I'm so hyped for the return of the ICE in Battlebots in the form of Rusty Jr. The new bot looks really well designed, although there was definitely an emphasis on keeping the whole "junkyard" aesthetic and making it somewhat goofy. I love it regardless and hope it's able to compete in season 8.
I would first insist on fighting Skorpios. Then I’d included a tape cassette player blasting a mixtape of the ditty “Zach n Diana”. Diana would be too busy singing along to fire the weapon and Zach would be too distracted by her to drive. Easy win!
Love Rusty! I went down to my Garage and scoped it out to see if I could come up with something to use for a Battlebot, and I realized, I could Cannibalize my step-dad's old motorcycle, which my mom would definitely appreciate ever since he got into a crash with it and broke his leg. Though I don't think he'd be as open to the idea himself.
I'd use my 3 old Nokias, just for the laugh... Imagine Nokia parts going everywhere in the BattleBox. That'd be hilarious
Why do we all still have our old Nokias? I have several in the junk drawer.
Well if that’s what needs to happen for hilarity, nobody would laugh. Those Nokias ain’t goin nowhere 🤣
I'd probably use my drone the roomba and a vacume cleaner and the blender to make a home grown Rusty.
I'd take a bunch of kitchen sponges, duct tape them together, and use it to create SpongeBot SquarePants. Its weapon is a spatula flipper and it's imagination
Awesome video! Lesson to beginners on a budget: design the bot around what's available and affordable. The best design in the world won't work if you can't get the parts.
When we moved into our new place back in 2020, we found that the previous tenant had dumped a treadmill in the back yard. You bet your ass that there are disembodied parts of that thing in Boltergeist and our insectweights! I also use chunks of it when I teach friends and family how to weld. I just get the angle grinder out and take a slice.
I have mobility scooter parts laying around for a possible heavy in the future but not able to test yet and motors from a 12v battery kids quad havent been able to pull those out tho yet
@@TeamWhackjob-Official You lucky bugger! Have fun with those!
@@teamboltergeist1920 oh i will first i have to reprint my ant and finish it and go onto beetle etc
I would use my flatscreen tv to be used as a ridiculously low to the ground front plow. I mean, theres nothing more lower than that!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
What would I use in my robot?
What's tougher than Rusty?
What's tougher than an old Nokia?
A 1984 Toyota Hilux.
I'd take the drive shaft out and use it as a horizontal undercutter(basher). Then once the fighting was done, I'd put it back in the car and drive home.
My toddler. She destroys everything in her path! Plus she comes off really cute like Rusty so no one will want to fight her.
I would use an ablative armor made out of wood but not just any wood Southern Live Oak. Same as the USS Constitution "Old Iron Sides." This would be a 2 part reason it's an inter locking grain Oak that has a Janka Hardness of 2,680 lbf so it's really hard and can take a beating. Part 2 would be because when it does break off, say by a bott like witch doctor or copperhead the wood would absorb some impact due to the interlocking grain, but it would also start to send unique splinters all over the arena. Over time this could decrease the coefficient of friction on the floor and could possibly interfere with drive ability of robots if the splinters were getting into moving parts. I run a sawmill and have a TH-cam channel as well. I cut hundreds of species of wood and there's nothing like live oak. It could really be an interesting wood to use if properly mounted. Has absorption qualities, durability, splinterability, and would be unique. Additionally it's inexpensive and would work better in a robot fighting situation as green wood rather than dried. In its green state the wood would have more give before splintering thus take a beating. Since I've been cutting wood on a sawmill since 2003 there's no wood that I dread more than live oak it's a real pain to cut, lol.
Just a thought, love the channel and thanks. Also I think I'll shoot a video on it this afternoon after work, where I cut live oak and do some testing to show how ridiculous it is. Here's the video of my take on live oak.
th-cam.com/video/v1d3iuohQSk/w-d-xo.html
David is bold he look like the dad from good luck Charlie
OMG, I love this!! Such a big fan of Rusty AND David! I’d use some of my spare dumbbells as a hammer and call my bot Hard Gains. 😂
For a robot i would use our 10qt insta-pot and put wheels, a tail, and maybe arms then name it the insta-gator
I’ll use my microwave, they seem pretty solid and I would be able to cook up my opponents !!! And afterwards I could make popcorn to share with David since he has the popcorn bowl 😂 #teamrusty the bot that could !!
I'd take our tea kettle and find a way to have a flame thrower shoot through the spout. I'd call it "I'm a little teapot".
I would like to build a robot built out of one of my pc case. Would it work well? No. Would it handle hits well? Certainly not. Would an rgb hobbyweight or featherweight be dope? Hell yeah!
You would be surprised i already tested pc case alu not used yet but i have done hit tests by ramming into it
My father was a scrapper for most of his adult life and there was an abundance of parts from anything metal laying around the shed and in the basement. I loved to scavenge through the parts to fix lawnmowers, bikes, etc and still do it today. Unfortunately, my wonderful father passed away from cancer in 2020 and I was heartbroken.
He left behind thousands of pounds of junk for me to sort through and haul to the scrapyard. Going through all of it and sorting things brought back so many memories and the valuable lessons I learned from him. Not everything is junk and most of it can be repurposed.
I didn't have the hear to haul everything in for scrap and kept several things that I thought I could use. A blower motor from a furnace, water heater valves, large aluminum plates/bars, and more. I would love to use these items and make a bot called "Bumpa" (my father's nickname).
A few years ago I found a fake leg when rock climbing. Of course I took it home and kept in my garage. I think it would be funny to make it a self righter for some soccer/football themed bot or something
That pull start it made me loose it. 😂😂😂😂😂
I live on a horse ranch that is right alongside a cow farm, so there’s lots of leftover fence posts, barbed wire and bits of metal from when the barriers were made. Barbed wore wouldn’t be able to do damage on its own, but it would definitely go a long way in robot look intimidating. We also have a few spare gate parts left laying around that could be reshaped into arm bars or even some kind of malformed Mammoth.
If you could build a large version of the fair ground soft toy grabbing machines that could grab a bot, lift it above the Kill Saws or the Screws and drop it. A screen used part of Rusty is such a good prize.
If I were to make a robot out of whatever was lying around in my house, I'd use my toaster and basically turn it into Double Jeopardy, but instead of firing metal slugs, I'd just have it fire burnt toast at the opponents.
So we've got an old sturdy metal PC case that would be perfect for a chassis. For the drive, we have a bunch of old lawn tools that I could use the motors from for drive. But I've even got an old gas, driven lawn mower that I could use for a gas-driven spinner! If ICEwave retires, I'd have my own loud spinner.
Rusty and Dave are so inspiring. Thank you so much!
This man is incredible!
My titanium spoon. Put a big 'ole engine on it, and watch it flip around awesomely!
I would build a bot out of the old wheelbarrel outside. Flip it over, put some wheels on it, paint it green and bam, you have a turtle. Could make a vertical disc spinner from an angle grinder on the front to be the turtles head.
So fun fact, the first two iterations of my 1 pound combat robot Angry Bird was made mostly from household items. The body(and for the first iteration, the face plow as well) was made from sandwiches of foam board, and the “weapon” such as it was, was a door hinge that I filed down to a point to make a hinged wedge beak that worked surprisingly well. My first combat robot Lestat similarly had some DIY salvaging for materials, as I took the blade off a spatula to use as its wedge.
We have an old oil drum we use to carry trash out to the corner. I could take that, cut a hole near the bottom for an axle to run some pneumatic tires from Rural King. Four old scooter motors, one for each wheel and one of each “arm”, would serve as the weapon and drive. I would have to get a lid and a “tail” to allow the robot to be stable as it drove. A local charity store has some sledgehammers for like $2 each, so I’d buy those and use those as the weapon system. Last and most important we’d have to give it a face.
I shall name it Garry, because once it’s complete it’d look like something out of Garry’s Mod.
QOTD: Looking around my dorm room, I'd probably take apart my fan for a spinning motor, then attach shoes to the motor by their laces for the weapon. For the body of the boy, I'd take my fridge apart for it's wires and side panels to use as armor. For locomotion I would take apart the plumbing beneath the sinks to roll the bot on top of, like ancient times.
I would use all my Hexbug BattleBots toys! Imagine one singular collective godlike being, THE OMEGA RUSTY
hmm, i've got a popcorn bowl and an old stove, i'm sure i could make a bot out of that lol.
I would take one of those ceramic kitchen sinks and build a beefy bot inside one, and call it sacrificial armor like shatter. Then hope the shards high center low bots, all to hear Faruk say something like "this bot will throw everything at you, including the kitchen sink...... its..... Dusty!
I would build a robot out of all of my legos to come compete on Battlebots and I could throw my moms exorcize ball at the opponent as my primary weapon.
If Rusty was in free control the world would be at peace. Cant wait to see Rusty mk3
Awesome video, it was very cool to see Rusty! As for combat, I would use our spare change collection and fire the coins in a way similar to Double Jeopardy!
I would use the shell of my 1940's typewriter for the body, it's cast iron. Then I'd recycle my ceiling fans motor into a weapon motor to swing an old lawnmower blade. I call it junkyard tombstone.
We recently moved so I don’t have that much old stuff. However, we do have an old clock that refuses to break. We dropped it like 20 times and it didn’t stop working.
Could been a commercial for tractor supply . lmfao.
As a big retro game fan I'd use some of my old computers mostly the Sinclair zx81 because it crashed all the time. And a ti99 for the body as it built like a tank
And can drive it with a Atari2600 joystick
Long live the retro.
Oh it's so cool to see inside rusty it a inspiration to all of us that anyone can build a robot and you dont have to spend silly amounts of money. Reminds me of alot of original robot wars builds
David's relationship with that horse? "Stable"
I used an old laminator for one of my previous builds. Gutted out the internals and gave it a drum spinner for its weapon
I would use the world's best bot building shop assistant, Suki (my 13 year old Beagle), to build my Battlebot. She said she is good at sniffing out problems, and she wants to be the driver. Watch out Martin Mason! She also wants to name the robot Doggo Destruction and can't wait to challenge her archnemesis, Madcatter.
I would love to see a side-by-side comparison of the innards of Rusty compared to some of the newer CAD-designed bots like Blip or Glitch.
If copyright allowed it, I would use my bokoblin plushie! I would make it look like the bokoblin was driving the battlebot lol.
😂
I would use my little brother! He has such a temper he can smash up any battlebot alive! 😂
it is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool, you gyse are the best
I'd wire in my Amazon Alexa. Then I can ask the robot stupid questions, get it to play music, it could be my alarm clock, I can ask it to order parts I need for it from Amazon, with the added bonus of a cool blue light!
QOTD: Being in a household of crafters, I have power tools and art boxs and tool boxes. So some sort of drill powered tool box wielding a circular saw and paint brushes. Look out Discovery, I'm coming for that Nut!
My dad has a junkyard on his garden. I would take the old red bread box and use it as a chassi, then I would simply stack plate metal to make an asymetrical drum spinner called "crumbles", since it was made out of a bread box. Or i would go to nhrl with a jeans armored vert.
I'd probably incorporate (or try to) a lawn aerator spiked drum :D
First, I can’t believe I didn’t know about your channel til just now, totally awesome!!! Second, what would I use around my house to build a combat robot… hmm… I’d try to find a way to weaponize my garden weasel!
LEGOS! Of course sealed to be made strong.... but LEGOS! where every child's love for building and robots starts!! I would use pieces from the "technic" sets for movement and have so many choices for tires or treads! I would also probably use some of the many parts of RC drift cars that my son has burnt out over the last few years... but I have so many thousands of legos from hundreds of different sets dating back 25 years! So I know I would definitely come up with something awesome but also adorable!!
I'ld build an overhead thwackbot using a plunger as a weapon and toilet paper rolls as the wheels in order to name it as "trouble in the toilet", of course.
Dang, I was going to say my old rusted sledgehammer heads as an homage to Rusty, but now that is a bit too on-the-nose. So now I'll choose some railroad spikes!
Fun episode, BTW!
See, what you've gotta do is take the door off the kitchen fridge and stick it on top of two old bikes. Now you've got drive AND armor.
Boom blaster, Double Jeopardy style. Or an old Saxophone converted into a flamethrower.
Definitely would use my wife's Grainfather brewing system. (She's a very talented brewer!) I would name the Bot "Hoppin' Mad" and build a drum spinner out of the block chiller.
Then I could be buried with the parts, because she would kill me!
On my hypothetical rusty I would use a lawn mower blade on top of the “head” to create the pinwheel hat effect
As a musician I don't have a lot of strong materials to go with (lots of wood!).
I'd use my guitar case as housing, then a heavy duty music stand as a plow (not the foldable one). Or if it's a lower weight class I'd use guitar pedal casings as armour, as they are aluminium and only have four screws on the bottom. I'd call it Distortionator.
I live in a crappy apartment where absolutely nothing is built to last, so if I want a battlebot part from it, I have to get *really* creative. I'll take the old cat bed that my cats have both outgrown and incorporate it into the shock-mounting of the internals. This wouldn't be especially useful on paper, but it would embody my robot with the spiritual rage and spite of my cats, which is not an unheard-of tactic in Battlebots - Jonathan Ridder from the Comedy Central seasons named and painted Ziggo in honor of his cat, and it won three championship titles. My cats probably aren't that hardcore, but they'd at least be good for a top 4 finish.
I’d hate to tear down my washing machine, but I could use that if I could get a new one first. That’d give me at least one motor, a transmission for it, and the steel basket for a body.
I have an old shopsmith with different attachments. And I'm sure I could find some fun stuff to add to in our old barn.
Aww man that's a tough question and one I've thought about at length!! In the spirit of Rusty it would be a hodge podge of everything! I have a plethora of bowling balls so I'm thinking bowling ball flail as a weapon, and I'm thinking freezer doors as armor! Now for the rest of the design, I think I would have to take a page from "Moist Pony" in other words, all of this would be shoved into a giant stuffed unicorn complete with pinwheels!! (don't ask why I have a giant stuffed unicorn but I do!)
I would use a cat litter box, and inside it's hidden a deadly drum spinner, when the other team, laughing, attack my not-so-deadly-looking-litter box, they are surprised by a drum spinner coming out of the litter box door and boom! Done, litter box wins!
I would build a horizontal spinner made out of metal from our old boat and whatever other metal I have laying around. It would look sort of like tombstone, but instead have treads made out of those little plastic dividers included in tackle boxes, with 2 being stacked as each tread piece. The weapon would be 9 metal fidget spinners attached to a tri blade, with the middle of the blade being solid with three arms that have 3 SOW fidget spinners (They have those, look them up.) on each that spin freely. It is attached to the bot by 2 cribbage boards, one on top of the spinner and one below it holding it in place. Imagine SOW’s blade, but instead of ‘hammers’ at each end there are fidget spinners. The arms are solid baseball bat handle metal. The weapon would be powered by a super high power modified leaf blower (because chains and weapon motors are overrated) that comes out from the hull of the bot slightly, and pushes the weapon and keeps it spinning using wind. The fidget spinners would all be rainbow, and so would the entire bar itself, making it look really colorful when it spun. I would paint everything else silver and call it ROY-G-BIV. (I have no clue what to name it I’m bad at names, this is the only thing I can think when I think rainbow.) I would also add a T-shirt launcher made from one of those tennis ball cannons for dogs, that shoots super compressed shirts into the crowd at high speeds. (Do shirts break the entanglement rule? If not, I just want to launch shirts at the other bot during a match.) I would also have a custom made Faruq bobble head attached to the top. (Can come off if flipped)
id wanna do something fun and slightly meta, like a robot that uses actual kitchen forks as forks to get under the other bot
I collect enegry drinks and I've got like 350+ cans in my house so I could melt them down and cast the ultimate billet frame for a combat robot!
I would use pieces of my old 40+ lb computer as frontal armor 😄
I used parts from my old volvo for my featherweights - the window motors, wiper motors and horns :)
I’d build my household object robot out of my BBQ, it’s got wheels, a metal frame and sheet metal I can repurpose as armour, and of course a 20lb propane tank to power the flame thrower weapon, and I can use my two cordless drills to power the drive.
Rusty is my favorite!!! Always rooting for him.
I’d use a sewing machine to make a robot.
I had an idea . During war they would paint ships with strange zig zag lines so that the opposition would find it hard to tell which direction it was traveling so why not do that with a robot ? I hope the Rusty piece goes to someone who will treasure it, I know I would .
I got a roomba. Just stick a rake on that bad boy and we have hypershock. In all seriousness, though, I live in ny and constantly dumpsterdive for parts so I have some pretty nice equipment like a linear actuator from a bed. I’d probably build it out of that kind of stuff. Maybe some parts from my standing desk and steel from our pans. At some point I’m grabbing a blowtorch for cooking, so I could totally use that as a nice little weapon.
I would love to just build a robot using a conventional Chainsaw as a weapon, to get that 90s feel.
But I think a Flamethrowing beetleweight made out a Toaster would be way more fun.
I’m a horticulture student and have access to a lot of wood/trees. Perhaps a very low density wooden bot, with lots of crumple room to absorb impacts. It would have a small bot in the middle, probably with a chainsaw weapon to keep with theme. It would have large wheels, and when it’s crumple zones are inevitably blown to bits, it will high center our enemies so we can start sawing away.
Would call it wrath of the forest
I wonder if I could take apart my heat press and use some of the panels for armor?
My dad has a very old oscilloscope. It's gigantic- we're talking something out of the '50s, so its size is like comparing a UNIVAC to a modern desktop computer. We could take the tubes, dials, and meters and make a sci-fi-B-movie-inspired bot. Old laser pointers could be the eyes (though we wouldn't want to blind the audience), and spools of multicolored wire could make great mad scientist frizzy hair. Dad has a bunch of patent plaques on the wall; I'm thinking we take replicas of those and affix them to circular sawblades (of which there are plenty), so patent drawings are spinning around at opponents for an added intimidation factor. Perhaps we could somehow use the many volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica lying around as armor to round out the nerdiness.
The name would have to be ridiculous. I'm thinking Dr. Science, PhD. (The PhD, of course, is in Physical Destruction.)
The most interesting thing in my house to use for a bot would be a taxidermied black bear. Don't ask me how it would work though 😅
I would use a bunch of pots and pans in my kitchen to make rusty a friend and or rival "Stainless"
I think i would use my desk, it is solid and 3 inches thick, and it hasnt broken yet (even though i regularly drop things on it lol) it probably wouldnt do as well as other bots with any metal armor, but it would be glorious to see it strewn across the battlebox.
I've got three old DeWalt battery powered circular saws. Two top mounted and one undercutter. All horizontal. Put some 10:1 cycloidal gear boxes on.
After about 15 minutes of insane laughing and cackling we came up with.... using our cat Princess Zelda Marie Flufferbottom's unicorn scratching post. The head be a hammer with a spike and the tail be the self righter. The barrel eould fit all yhe internals.
Ps. Stop being an hour or so away and not say hi! J/k
I have my mother's old bread machine. It's a boxy thing that would be a good starting structure for a bot, and it would have good sentimental value.
Honestly Rusty is the physical representation of CC Battlebots. Bots made out of aluminum or junk parts and they still can do Something. Rusty sr will forever be an incredible bot and Rusty jr will carry on his father’s legacy
Rusty is one of our favorites!
Looks like you had a nice time at Rusty's farm and if I'd choose something to use from the house I choose a boiler whether old or currently used since it's durable and can withstand fire and I think I make to a motorcycle themed bot called Wild Chopper so it look like a fuel tank with it's own wheels one of which is a vertical spinner weapon
I'd probably use my 200 or so Funko Pops, they could melt down into quite the lump of spinner blow softening plastic, glue that to my Fingertech Viper and I'm golden.
The best bot in my opinion
I have some old and quite large carriage bolts that have been hanging around for at least a couple of generations. They're too good to throw out, but never have been able to come up with a use for them. Got to be able to turn them into axles or use them to hold a bot together. They have to be useful somewhere in a bot.
My wife says she would use sewing machine motors, but wants my old Ford wheel wrench in there somewhere.
I would pull the drum out of the dryer bolt it to my self propelled lawnmower and make a full body spinner called Captain lint-inator!!
I would probably use my guitar music stand as a catapult to launch my toaster to build my own combat robot. I love rusty and I am so glad I got to see the witch doctor fight live.
My old smoker from the bee-yard would be perfect. Or a bunch of bees.
I would have to use a the frame from my old bike. Or the metal frame from our old Christmas tree.