Even though this is funny, the floor tile basically hardcounters the crap outta rickety cricket and also imagine having a robot that moves by tilting its weapon and having to fight a ton of bots that are like 100x faster and more agile than your bot
TO BE FAIR, Low Low Man is the enemy for a lot of designs. I just needed to out-drive Rickety Cricket, which is thankfully relatively easy with a gyro walker. But still, one mistake and it would have gone a completely different way. Rickety Cricket got third btw...
@@RobertCowanDIY yes, thats what is so great about low low man, it's kind of like huge in the way of "how am i supposed to fight this thing?" Despite for the fact that they're basically opposite extremes they both work in kind of the same way
Definitely my fave bot since crippling depression. So much domination and control on the arena. Great job! The other competitors were great too. That cricket fight was intense!
Sorry the seams became such an issue. This is the 4th event for that floor and it’s held up well until Cricket got to it. I’m working on an solid hold-down system to keep the panels from bouncing, and staying flat.
Two of those knockouts where utterly comical. The one dropping in with the pieces of fluff popping up just after made me laugh in stitches. And then the gyrowalker being really impatient to fly into the hole just as it opens is priceless. This was a great episode.
@@RobertCowanDIY Looks like it was a lot of fun. Its great to have something that throws of the competitor. I also just noticed LLM signaling surrender in the last exhibition fight lol. Makes me glad my kids are starting to get into this as well.
I think an easy upgrade for the wedgelets would be to have an internal rib on the underside, that would prevent the wedgelets from turning that far in that direction. It could be as easy as a bent piece of aluminum preventing them from turning so far.
Have you looked into limiting the travel of your wedgelets, so they cannot high center you if you catch a floor seam like that? Also would keep them from getting flipped up out of the way. The danger of doing so would be that they could bind or break from vertical spinners, maybe a spring loaded soft stop?
Yeah, the wedgelets were a last minute idea. Low Low Man was originally just going to be a driving tile, nothing else. The attachments came after I realized it could actually be competitive. The next version will have much more 'advanced' wedgelets.
Can you build a robot that isn't absolutely amazing for once? You're making the rest of us look bad. In all seriousness, congratulations on another successful event. It's great to see the build philosophy behind a bot and then see it in action.
You pretty much made a mini version of the old super heavy weight biohazard without the skirts or lifting arm. Lucky there werent any full body spinners or undercutters. Well done.
I was so cool to see Low Low Man at ARC this year! I would love to get the chance to fight you at some point in the future, maybe at ARC 2020, we'll see. Also at 23:57 you peeled my sticker off the floor.
You could probably make the wedglets such that they can't rotate down too far, ie by bumping into the part of the robot by design. That way, should they catch on something they won't let the bot push up itself too far and leave the back wheels airborn.
Not sure if it was youtube or your camera but there seems to be some wagon wheel effect on the spinners. They have to be spinning much faster than it looks like they are.
Well done, Robert! Innovation may be its own reward, but it certainly helps if it wins you loads of cool prizes, too. Bravo! Hmm... Trying to think of a suitable foil for the Low Low Man concept... It's too low to hit, too thin to crush, too slippery to ram, too well driven to get stuck - so I think your only weak point would be a fight against a fold-bot. A fold-bot? Who he? Well, imagine a Japanese sumo-bot with manipulator arms that picked up Low Low Man like a sheet of paper and folded it into a giraffe or a swan. Death by origami? Nooooooo! :-)
It's possible. There aren't pushouts at the larger weight classes usually, so it would be a 3 minute match every time, and you couldn't get hit, ever. It works out better at the smaller weight classes. But it would be fun at 30 pounds ;-)
Yes, but no. The producers wouldn't select the bot into the competition, simply. Because it'd be considered boring and it'd upset many more spectuacular bots. There are lots of wedge bots that applied to battlebots and got rejected. Oh, also the rules require an active weapon of any kind. This doesn't have any weapon.
Heres a great idea Have the front wedges designed so that when they are down, in typical configuration they serve as a ramp but run a bar through them all attached to a piston/ actuator so that you can raise them and create a much better pushing surface on the front for maneuvering other bots, ie trapping in a corner or pushing into the pit
@@RobertCowanDIY smart plan, on a piston linkage you'd be able to pull them onto the floor creating no surface to be caught by an opponent weapon, but in active/ extended mode they become much more offensive
"Red dye #5 is wondering why this piece of floor is driving at him" 😂 why dont they have this guy do the announcing for battlebots? The guys they have are so unfunny.
Try making a v2 with sloped wedge on all sides so any hits would glance off, and then design it so that it can break everyone else’s weapons by being durable.
Low man vs red dye=Cobalt vs duck But dissapointing final fight. Not necessarily either Low low man or Red Dye 5's fault. Rickty cricket screwed up the floor too much just pulling what was essentially deathroll vs endgame for 50% of his fights. Great job Robert! Keep making iconic bots!
MAYBE, but I feel it would take away from the original intent. it's very good at controlling other bots, and when you start flipping them, it adds variables. With the current configuration, it's nearly impossible to have a bot land on you or get around to the back (unless you drive poorly). Once you start flipping bots, they can start landing in non-ideal places.
@@RobertCowanDIY It could be possible to add a Biohazard type lifter, the bot's style is highly similar (low, relentless control bot with an affinity for pinning) so it wouldn't be a stretch.
@@chdreturns Weight is always the issue. The weight has to come from somewhere. Plus, finding a motor that's only 10mm tall might be tricky. You would need a relatively large blade (since the bot is so large), it would be at least a few hundred grams in weight (to do any damage), so the body/frame would need to be significantly smaller or weaker to compensate. Everything is a trade-off.
I'm actually very surprised how well mannered the kids at this event were, sometimes children are a bit annoying (I know, it should get children interested in robotic stuff)
I Remember you saying in a video that the death hum is around 250 mph. If that's true the how does copperhead have a death hum despite the weapons tip speed does not even reach 200 mph or higher?
Huh, that wasn't me that said it. Every bot has a different weapon tone, it depends on how it chops the air. perfectly smooth drum wouldn't make much noise, at any speed. Adding the tooth chops the air and makes the noise. This is why Tombstone's blade is pretty quiet, it isn't really chopping much air, and egg-beaters are really loud.
It's basically just a floor imperfection
Haha so cool. Congrats on the win.
Imagine showing up to a coopetition with a robot that weighs twice as much as everyone else's and still losing to a floor tile with wheels.
Even though this is funny, the floor tile basically hardcounters the crap outta rickety cricket and also imagine having a robot that moves by tilting its weapon and having to fight a ton of bots that are like 100x faster and more agile than your bot
TO BE FAIR, Low Low Man is the enemy for a lot of designs. I just needed to out-drive Rickety Cricket, which is thankfully relatively easy with a gyro walker. But still, one mistake and it would have gone a completely different way. Rickety Cricket got third btw...
@@RobertCowanDIY yes, thats what is so great about low low man, it's kind of like huge in the way of "how am i supposed to fight this thing?" Despite for the fact that they're basically opposite extremes they both work in kind of the same way
I get the rules and all, but c'mon. Non of those were real losses.
It was awesome getting to see the debut of Low Low Man in person. The best part is the transport case! I hope to see you again at the next ARC!
Awesome bot, as per usual!
Now build Tall Tall Man.
yes! this is the greatest idea
wouldn't that just be HUGE ?
I NEED Tall Tall Man!
@@Exidous96 imagine if he makes it a tower vertical spinner like Deep 6 lol
@@Bob-ss5zt that could be cool? see how tall a vertical he could make, although you'd basically end up with drizzle or 3lb deep 6?
im sure the other bots where pondering, HOW DO I FIGHT THIS?! Great job lol, he had quite a good grip on the floor.
There was definitely a lot of that going on in the pits.
Your bot will need to be covered in ramps, and lower( if possible)
It’s got a great grip cuz it has like 20 WHEELS
The last match and the bonus match shows extreme sportmanship!
We're all here to just have fun.
Low low man is so cool!
Definitely my fave bot since crippling depression. So much domination and control on the arena. Great job!
The other competitors were great too. That cricket fight was intense!
Sorry the seams became such an issue. This is the 4th event for that floor and it’s held up well until Cricket got to it. I’m working on an solid hold-down system to keep the panels from bouncing, and staying flat.
You go, angry floor tile! This was quite fun to watch.
I'm not sure what I'd like to see more - a 250lb Low Low Man, or a new iteration at Battlebots as a minibot spinning around the big boys.
It COULD make a good minibot with some tweaks.
i wouldn't wanna put a bot like this against a bot like huge. longest bar small wheels hits pretty bad.
Nice job on Rickety Cricket! That was a great match :)
Tell my poor floor that.
Wow the mini drive actually worked really well... what a versatile robot. I love how these competitions inspire so many different designs
Two of those knockouts where utterly comical. The one dropping in with the pieces of fluff popping up just after made me laugh in stitches. And then the gyrowalker being really impatient to fly into the hole just as it opens is priceless. This was a great episode.
It was one of my favorite competitions, Low Low Man did exactly what it was supposed to do, which is rare.
@@RobertCowanDIY Looks like it was a lot of fun. Its great to have something that throws of the competitor. I also just noticed LLM signaling surrender in the last exhibition fight lol. Makes me glad my kids are starting to get into this as well.
Watching back these older vids is a blast, for QOL (If possible) I'd add timestamps here too!
Great to see your hard work and talent pay off! Congratulations!
Low Low Man: when the floor fights back.
Lol
Low low man and Huge would be a match to see.
I think an easy upgrade for the wedgelets would be to have an internal rib on the underside, that would prevent the wedgelets from turning that far in that direction. It could be as easy as a bent piece of aluminum preventing them from turning so far.
since they are CNC machined, I can just change their profile. I have some ideas to make them limit their travel.
Absolutely amazing robot design.
4:29 of course that’s the name of this robot
HAHA, oops. I knew that was going to happen.
Have you looked into limiting the travel of your wedgelets, so they cannot high center you if you catch a floor seam like that? Also would keep them from getting flipped up out of the way. The danger of doing so would be that they could bind or break from vertical spinners, maybe a spring loaded soft stop?
Yeah, the wedgelets were a last minute idea. Low Low Man was originally just going to be a driving tile, nothing else. The attachments came after I realized it could actually be competitive. The next version will have much more 'advanced' wedgelets.
Can you build a robot that isn't absolutely amazing for once? You're making the rest of us look bad.
In all seriousness, congratulations on another successful event. It's great to see the build philosophy behind a bot and then see it in action.
You pretty much made a mini version of the old super heavy weight biohazard without the skirts or lifting arm. Lucky there werent any full body spinners or undercutters. Well done.
Biohazard is heavyweight. Yeah it would be interesting to see how low low man would fare against an undercutter.
I was so cool to see Low Low Man at ARC this year! I would love to get the chance to fight you at some point in the future, maybe at ARC 2020, we'll see.
Also at 23:57 you peeled my sticker off the floor.
Thanks! I was pretty happy to see that it can literally peel stickers off the floor
Great design. Seemed tuned in from the start.
You could probably make the wedglets such that they can't rotate down too far, ie by bumping into the part of the robot by design. That way, should they catch on something they won't let the bot push up itself too far and leave the back wheels airborn.
Yeah, he new version will have some changes. I ended up just using the 3d printed wedge, it's the best all-around attachment.
I wanna see it fight Silent Spring
Me too ;-)
this robot is absolutely hilarious
It's really helpful to also see the fights, really enjoyed this one :)
the ruler of all floor tiles
Is Rickety Cricket just a tiny Wrecks?
Not sure if it was youtube or your camera but there seems to be some wagon wheel effect on the spinners. They have to be spinning much faster than it looks like they are.
I didn't mention it in the video, but I was accidentally shooting at 120FPS, so it's just a really high frame rate. That's why it's really grainy too.
Well done, Robert! Innovation may be its own reward, but it certainly helps if it wins you loads of cool prizes, too.
Bravo!
Hmm... Trying to think of a suitable foil for the Low Low Man concept... It's too low to hit, too thin to crush, too slippery to ram, too well driven to get stuck - so I think your only weak point would be a fight against a fold-bot. A fold-bot? Who he?
Well, imagine a Japanese sumo-bot with manipulator arms that picked up Low Low Man like a sheet of paper and folded it into a giraffe or a swan.
Death by origami? Nooooooo! :-)
4:28 Long Long Man???
Could you scale this up to effect for heavyweight matches? Basically an even thinner duck.
Named Chick
It's possible. There aren't pushouts at the larger weight classes usually, so it would be a 3 minute match every time, and you couldn't get hit, ever. It works out better at the smaller weight classes. But it would be fun at 30 pounds ;-)
Yes, but no. The producers wouldn't select the bot into the competition, simply. Because it'd be considered boring and it'd upset many more spectuacular bots. There are lots of wedge bots that applied to battlebots and got rejected. Oh, also the rules require an active weapon of any kind. This doesn't have any weapon.
Do you know where I could see Rickety Cricket's other matches? Also you should build a walker of some sort.
Search Luke Quin on TH-cam
th-cam.com/video/RY7d0zerahQ/w-d-xo.html
Heres a great idea
Have the front wedges designed so that when they are down, in typical configuration they serve as a ramp but run a bar through them all attached to a piston/ actuator so that you can raise them and create a much better pushing surface on the front for maneuvering other bots, ie trapping in a corner or pushing into the pit
I have some ideas for 'active wedgelets'. we'll see where that goes.
@@RobertCowanDIY smart plan, on a piston linkage you'd be able to pull them onto the floor creating no surface to be caught by an opponent weapon, but in active/ extended mode they become much more offensive
"Red dye #5 is wondering why this piece of floor is driving at him"
😂 why dont they have this guy do the announcing for battlebots? The guys they have are so unfunny.
I know that guy deserves higher pay
David is a great announcer!
D'aww. Thanks guys.
Battle bots commentary : Oooohhh did you see that Kenny? Ohhhh! Ooohhhhhh!
@@RennieAsh UH OH
Your first fight was against the guys from Jackpot this year at battlebots.
I love this stuff
Is that Jeff Waters (Jackpot)?
Yep! We've fought a couple times in the smaller weight clases.
The most effective wedge bot ever I believe
Original Sin with Gary Gin driving is probably the most effective, either that or sewer snake
I think that title belongs to Tornado
@@danielwgk no...
@@Smokin_Snowman a flat front is just a 90 degree wedge.
@@danielwgk Sure, but Original Sin won many tournaments in an arena with no pit based just on Gary Gin's driving.
it beat the legendary zip ties robot lord please have mercy XD
Try making a v2 with sloped wedge on all sides so any hits would glance off, and then design it so that it can break everyone else’s weapons by being durable.
nah ;-) then it would just be a speed bump.
Low man vs red dye=Cobalt vs duck
But dissapointing final fight. Not necessarily either Low low man or Red Dye 5's fault. Rickty cricket screwed up the floor too much just pulling what was essentially deathroll vs endgame for 50% of his fights.
Great job Robert! Keep making iconic bots!
Cutting board on wheels! :-D
ur doin a great work, thanks for educating us, and plz tell when will robot wars starts again
NEWTON'S FIRST LAW OF MOTION PEELED LOW LOW MAN LIKE CAN
You are our hero man
Ha, thanks. Not sure what deserves that though.
@@RobertCowanDIY I really appreciate what you are giving to the learners😊 we are really grateful.
The walker is really cool
Nice beard.
Basically biohazard mini 2019
That is one tanky, and angry floor tile
This is an aggressive serving try
I love bots like this that is a bit off meta.
2:36 nice hat
Would it somehow be possible to give low low man a flipper?
MAYBE, but I feel it would take away from the original intent. it's very good at controlling other bots, and when you start flipping them, it adds variables. With the current configuration, it's nearly impossible to have a bot land on you or get around to the back (unless you drive poorly). Once you start flipping bots, they can start landing in non-ideal places.
@@RobertCowanDIY Thank you for your insight Robert! ps: your channel is fantastic!
@@RobertCowanDIY It could be possible to add a Biohazard type lifter, the bot's style is highly similar (low, relentless control bot with an affinity for pinning) so it wouldn't be a stretch.
@@chdreturns Weight is always the issue. The weight has to come from somewhere. Plus, finding a motor that's only 10mm tall might be tricky. You would need a relatively large blade (since the bot is so large), it would be at least a few hundred grams in weight (to do any damage), so the body/frame would need to be significantly smaller or weaker to compensate. Everything is a trade-off.
I'm actually very surprised how well mannered the kids at this event were, sometimes children are a bit annoying (I know, it should get children interested in robotic stuff)
I Remember you saying in a video that the death hum is around 250 mph. If that's true the how does copperhead have a death hum despite the weapons tip speed does not even reach 200 mph or higher?
Huh, that wasn't me that said it. Every bot has a different weapon tone, it depends on how it chops the air. perfectly smooth drum wouldn't make much noise, at any speed. Adding the tooth chops the air and makes the noise. This is why Tombstone's blade is pretty quiet, it isn't really chopping much air, and egg-beaters are really loud.
U said long long man once😂
I've said it more than once ;-)
You should’ve named it shadow :)
Someone make an axe/hammer bot to fight this!
Spoiler alert!
kids need to be banned from these events the screeching is unbearable