Spinnerproof

• We’re back!
  • Back-ish
  • Editing sucks and we’re not doing it.
• BEVs
  • Northdown Havoc
  • Sportsman feathers are dope
• Judging
  • Judging is hard
    • Coin-toss fights
    • Let The Good Times Stroll vs Crossblow III vs Head for the Exit
  • Battlebots…
    • This community sucks as talking about this stuff
    • The system doesn’t seem that ‘broken’
    • Do we need Battlebots?
    ...

• Follow Up/Front Matter
  • There is a bingo winner. We haven’t worked out who yet
  • A quite vast amount of information about brushless motors and ESCs
    • Sensorless still involves some small degree of sensing/feedback, and this is important
  • Dual brushless hammer fun
    • Stripped grub screw threads
  • Ryan made a fuss
    • Fake spinner test
    • The real testing setup
• Battlebots and stuff
  ...

• Front matter
  • Lockdown finally made Sam build things
    • More on that later!
    • Ryan doesn’t know what tools he owns
  • Bugglebots 4K special
    • Vote here! (may require time machine)
    • Watch here!
• 5 episodes of Battlebots 2020 in <40 minutes
  • P1
    • The robot is very good
    • Accidentally discussing the top 32 selection
      • A hypothetical 0-3 making the top 32?
      • Is 3 wins a lot of wins?

• Front Matter
  • Sliding slowly an inexoribly towards The Fight
  • Bounty Hunters
    • How do you cover something which has no formal air date?
    • Is it good?
    • Bronco the “legend”
      • The team? Yes. The robot? Eh…
    • Lack of attention to spoilers
• Episodes 4 & 5
  • Good things!
    • Slammow working
    • Chomp working
      • Gamma 9 working
  • Shatter! vs Malice
    • Short memorie...

• Front Matter
  • How Spinnerproof is covering Battlebots
    • What we want, when we want
      • Fights and topics which interest us, released sporadically
• Battlebots 2020 - episodes 1-3
  • Bloodsport vs Skorpios
    • The power of managed expectations
    • Bloodsport’s improvements
  • Shatter! vs Ghost Raptor
    • Shatter! is amazing and if you disagree you are wrong
    • The best hammer?
    • How to use...

This episode was recorded on November 28th, 2020

The cards can be seen in all their graphic glory here

• The teams:
  • Mike - Mystrsyko
  • Sam - Robocast
  • Sam & Ryan - Spinnerproof
  • Charlie - Good Robottal
  • Ned - Spoiler Alert & ESC
  • Oliver - ESC and No More Spinnahhs
  • David - David of Smeg
  • Jevan - World of Woodrow & No More Spinnahhs
• The cards:
  • Mike
    • Puff the Magic Dragon
      • A LiPo fire in the box
      ...

• Front matter
  • How you doing?
    • Artificial daylight lamp build
  • Youtube is becoming garbage
• Follow Up
  • Lockjaw does not have a wedge
  • The Malice team are awesome
• RTNCTI
  • Upcoming fights:
    • Quarter finals
      • Lockjaw vs Apollo
      • Tombstone vs Expulsion
      • Minotaur vs RAPID
      • SOW vs Biteforce
      • • Semi-finals, final, and 3rd place
  • !!!RATHER LARGE SPOILERS BELOW!!!
    • Lo...

• Follow Up
  • Sam did a Minotaur oopsie
    • Not the oopsie Ryan expected
  • Ryan has a pillar drill/drill press now
  • Battlebots news!
    • Air date!
    • Trailer!
    • Other good things!
    • Robocast’s 2020 preview
    • Thursday broadcast
• RTNCTI
  • Mistakes!
    • BETA vs DUCK! should not have hapened
    • Hypothermia vs BETA and DUCK! vs SOW should have hapened in its place
    • These fights will happen now
    • If any of you ...

• Follow up
  • Sam’s genius ideas shamelessly stolen
    • Re-solving solved problems
• RTNCTI
  • A reminder of the rules
  • This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers)
    • Magnetar vs Hypothermia
    • Cobalt vs Valkyrie
    • Lockjaw (2018) vs The Kegs
    • The Ringmaster vs Apollo
    • Red Devil vs Big Nipper
    • War Hawk vs TR2
    • Tombstone vs Monsoon
    • Bronco vs Whiplash
    • Expulsion (Series 10) vs Eruption
    • PP3D vs The Four* Horsem...

• Front matter
  • Scones
  • Battlebots 2020
    • Increasing optimism
    • Taskmaster Series 10
  • Robotting
    • Mis-adventures in spinner testing
      • Learning what you’ve learned
      • Safety
    • Toilet brush robot
    • Proper but also not proper thwackbot prototype
    • Sit and spin
    • Googly eye robot
    • A potential Sam boat?
• RTNCTI
  • A reminder of the rules
  • This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers)
    • Magnetar ...

• Front matter
  • Audio woes
  • Battlebots October filming confirmed
    • This was recorded a couple of hours after the announcement
    • Mixed feelings
      • RTNCTI
      • Anticipated dropouts - many of which were since confirmed
      • A chance for less recognised robots to thrive
      • Will casual fans be OK with the changes?
      • Potential for viewership to thrive in a different TV landscape
  • Robonerd
    • An event we both really missed
    ...

• Front matter
  • Amazon are meanies
  • Robonerd TV
  • No More Spinnahhs
• RTNCTI
  • A reminder of the rules
  • This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers)
    • PP3D vs Nuts 2
    • The Four Horsemen vs Sharkoprion
    • Overdrive (4wd lifter) vs Beast
    • Minotaur vs Brutus
  • !!!!!!VERY MILD SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!
    • PP3D vs Nuts 2
      • Who can hit what?
    • The Four Horsemen vs Sharkoprion
      • Audible confusion
      • Who can hit wha...

• Black Lives Matter
  • Parable of the Polygons
• The show of aftershows
  • Keeping your attention. Yes. Yours. You right there.
    • Opening another podcast episode by talking about youtube
    • Joe Rogan’s Spotify deal
  • Ryan’s Pandemic Projects
    • Silly boat video
    • Antweight Hello There!
    • Mental health in lockdown
    • Finishing projects
  • Sam’s Spinnerproof R&D Lab
    • Arduino experimen...

• Front matter
  • Spinnerproof on youtube
    • Don’t use it. Listen a better way.
    • New episodes will go up, but might lag slightly behind traditional uploads
    • r/agedlikemilk
  • Good Robottal’s latest RA2 expansion pack stuff thing
    • Hello There is overpowered in relation to other non-spinners
      • There are also other robots
• RTNCTI
  • A reminder of the rules
  • This episode’s f...

• Front matter
  • Actual robot building
    • Secret projects
    • The difficulties of driving and winning fights
• RTNCTI
  • A reminder of the rules
  • This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers)
    • Tauron (S10) vs Cobalt
    • Valkyrie vs Orte
    • Concussion (S10) vs Lockjaw (2018)
    • HUGE vs The Kegs
    • Escape Velocity vs The Ringmaster
    • Death Roll vs Apollo (S9)
    • Red Devil (2018) vs Ironside 3 (S9)
    • Kraken vs Big Nipper
  • ...

• Follow up
  • Battlebots’ Top 10 “Moments” of 2019
    • What is a ‘moment’?
    • What is a ‘marketing’?
    • Norwalk Havoc
      • Yes, Ryan has chosen the stream where they had some technical issues
      • Fights are 3 minutes + a potential encore, not 2 minutes
    • BBB Beetle Champs 2020 (SXS)
    • Top Four
    • Robot or Not
  • Bucktooth Burl vs Skorpios vs Deathroll
• RTNCTI
  • A reminder o...

• Follow up
  • TheTrueCorrectGuy’s comment
    • Basically everything said in this comment is accurate
      • The difficulty of doing RTNCTI in a post-2019 world
      • Potential do-overs?
  • The Big Bot Quiz!
• RTNCTI
  • A reminder of the rules
  • This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers)
    • Big Nipper vs Parallax vs Crazy Coupe 88
    • Overhaul vs Mega Tento vs Bucktooth Burl
    • Ms Nightshade vs Crank-e vs SOW
    • ...

• Follow up Front matter
  • Sam has been streaming
    • Twitch
    • VODs - 1, 2
  • Ryan has been guesting
    • ESC
    • The Big Bot Quiz
• RTNCTI
  • A reminder of the rules
  • Ryan made a lot of notes, and is confident that none of said work will go to waste
  • This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers)
    • Witch Doctor vs Lucky vs Shockwave
    • Vanquish vs Black Ice vs Basilisk
    • Tombstone vs Crackers ‘N...