This manual aims to cover everything you need to build your own battling robot, including information on wiring, modelling, design, weapon systems and more. It also presents data on cost, unions, rules, competing, choosing, ordering, using and maintaining much of the equipment.
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For beginners with little prior technical knowledge, Hannold, a veteran participant and promotor of combat robot competitions, explains the steps required for building a fighting robot and discusses issues common to other types of robots. The CD features videos of combat robots in action, useful web links, and several shareware, freeware, and trial versions of useful software packages. (Library Journal )
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CD-ROM CONTAINS COMPLETE PLANS FOR BUILDING A BATTLING ROBOT AND FAQs.
BUILD YOUR OWN METAL WARRIOR AND GET READY TO RUMBLE!
Here’s everything you need to jump into the fascinating and fun world of fighting robots – even if you don’t have advanced electronic or engineering skills. The author, a five-year fighting bot and twenty-year bot veteran who has promoted robot combat events, offers priceless “insider info” covering everything from step-by-step guidance on constructing your first combat robot to the lowdown on the federations that sponsor or guide competitions.
Three different “build reports” make constructing your own battling robot simple – even for first-timers. You’ll learn everything you need to know about: Wiring • Design • Weapons Systems • Speed Control • Batteries • Motors Combat Robots Complete includes easy-to-use mathematical conversion tables to help you calculate variables such as distance, area, volume, temperature, energy, power, mass, force, speed, and angles. But Combat Robots Complete doesn’t stop with construction details, the author also gives you valuable hard-to-find data on:
* The pros and cons of each type of robot design
* Model selection
* Cost
* Ordering
* Competition – including federations and their rules
* Maintenance
The CD-ROM contains a step-by-step guide to creating your own battling robot plus hundreds of FAQs that tap into the author’s years of experience.
PERFECT FOR FIRST-TIME ROBOT BUILDERS AS WELL AS MORE ADVANCED HOBBYISTS WHO WANT TO EXPERIENCE THE THRILL OF METAL BASHING METAL.
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This review is from: Combat Robots Complete : Everything You Need to Build, Compete, and Win (Paperback)
I have jut finished read his book and let me tell you that it was great! If you are in a jam and are wondering a question. It will have it. If you not sure what book to get. Between this and "build your own combat robot." Well, I am currently reading "build your own combat robot." I'd personally get both but 1st I would definitely get Combat Robots Complete because I have noticed that in "build you own combat robot" they on touch on some stuff and not go in-depth they sometimes have actually said look online or at a library. I mean come on we all could have thought of that one! In combat robots complete they go in-depth a little more and I am an amateur and that really helps because I think a lot of the amateurs really need that kind of help. Now to wrap it up. Get it As SOON AS POSSIBLE! Then read all of it. Do not just read it, read it. Read it and understand it! You may need to reread some chapters. then once you got a good handle on it definitely buy "build your own combat robot," they have different view, chapters and explanations. So get them both!
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emergency cutoff loop, bot builders, cordless drill motors, spinner weapon, wedge bot, combat robotics, continuous amps, battling robots, remote control receiver, combat robots, fighting robot, aluminum armor, weld nuts, speed controllers, stall torque, thick polycarbonate, spinner blade, wheel holes, pneumatic wheels, radio controller, shaft collar, style bearings, hole transfer, gear reduction, half link Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Team Delta, Six Million Dollar Mouse, Courtesy of Martin Gear Inc, Shaft Diameter, Innovation First, Rubber Ducky, Radio Shack, The Motor Spec Chart New!
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