REDEMPTION at Battlebots! (Round #2)

fight fight fight the battle begins Oh No 3 2 1 to the battle box we are competing in BattleBots, the most brutal robot fighting competition in the world. We already have three videos on this, but in case you missed it, we funded and mentored W. Student to create Orbitron, one of the First Aid Battle Bots. Time was limited, but we managed to build a complete bot in just over 8 weeks. We drove to Las Vegas for our first bout on proven grounds and lost terribly, but we didn't give up, we rebuilt. better, faster and stronger and now the team is back in Las Vegas to fight a new mess of Contender, another upright spinner built by Wildcat robotics, will we be victorious and secure a spot on the next TV show or will it be this one? the end of Orbitron?

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It's a pretty wide robot, so it has a very stable stance, but since we're fighting a vertical spinner this time and our robot is more optimized for a vertical spinner, I think there's a good chance we noticed in the previous FS that The mess is already made, they ran a miniot and we're not sure if they're going to run it this time, but that might mess up our computer vision because our system our main motion tracking uses motion detection and the minibot is motion so Sometimes you can lose track of your robot and go after the miniot, which wouldn't be good.

Are you worried at all if they bring the miniot? For mechanical reasons, not for Peter. Yeah, um, and the problem is we won't really be able to test that until tomorrow, as long as we click on the right bot and we've set the right minimum size, that minimum mini bot should filter out great, great, oh, there's no setting. the camera I'm going to try to make sure the angle is good we can see the whole field it's nice and focus now one of the new additions this time is we added the ability to mask out different regions of the image and that kind of fooled our follow up before it was the screws last time, right, yeah, and I'm just going to draw a rectangle and then lock them in, so now you shouldn't be fooled if they move because they're gone, so I glued in the magnet arrays.

Saturday and Sunday we packed them up and put them in the box, so now what we have to do is take them, put the Emi shield on the back and drop them into the robot, we have to get them in there, hopefully we won't pinch the fingers. I have gloves for a reason and then we should stay glued to the ground with 100 lbs more Force, okay, don't tip it down, I got it, yeah. Forks, we are installing the batteries for the first time in BattleBots Arena, well, no, not the first time. but like the first time here, we'll do a full system check, make sure we have full communication with the controllers, all engine temps look good and then we'll go to the box and do our test drive. and tuning, so we'll make sure to tune with the magnets, we have the right wheels in place now, so we'll make sure we have as much traction as we can.

Let's adjust the speeds. accelerations, turning radii, camera overlay, try all our software changes and make sure our camera support is perfect and if all goes well we will be ready to fight tomorrow if you want to see the full schematic diagram , be sure to check it out. our maker.io link in the description below, do you have a drive? Okay, how about the other one? Yeah cool yeah let's talk about controllers let's talk about the elephant in the room here so in our first fight we had our PlayStation 5 dual sense controller connected via USB to Peter's laptop and at some point during the match we know exactly at what point it decided to disconnect so we said screw in the wireless controllers and we have these officially licensed Xbox controllers from Microsoft that are just wired and then we have one and another and another. and in another, we're not going to have a controller disconnected this time it's Center Board One Drive running on it Peter, we have radio, we have radio, okay, we lost the radio, all the teams have turned off the indicator light on this side, so let's fix it. that sound, yeah, um, it made a terrible noise when I turned it on, yeah, so do we have something?

Are we talking about something right now? nothing, it's okay, we'll call it, I'm going to grab you, go down there, over there, sure, okay, yeah. I'm worried we'll just take that side out, that side is easy to remove, we never saw this unit turn on, that could have been what blew up, yeah the front is the best, can't get power. I don't know well, we pinched our backlight. cables and that's a little problem because the backlight goes directly to the batteries so our motor controllers are not working and the motor controllers are working the motors are working and the robot is not working so let's try cut the wires here. where they are pinched you can see everything that is exposed, cut and splice add the new length and hopefully nothing is permanently damaged and the BW switch works when you start flipping the switch the only thing that appears to be normal is the unit , if I do not do it.

I know what else I'm hoping to get out of this we know the dryve vesque we know the only drve vesk is kinda alive we know the weapons desk is kinda alive so now we know this ESC is probably not dead yeah no I don't know about this one because We couldn't turn it on, let's fix the can and then see if the unit works well, so we know a couple things are wrong, this switch may not survive. We know our tin harness sustained some damage. We know one of our breakers is dead and that's all we know, we have to fix those two items before we can go and diagnose other things.

We fixed an ignition switch and the Cann bu harness and the final indicator light wires and we. I hope that fixes absolutely everything, but this is the bar that wasn't working right now, we see the VES Express and that unit, as soon as I try to recharge it, it just shuts down completely, oh oh no, I mean, when we had power , this is The plan team replaces three motor controllers, all three are outside the robot, so we can see how quickly we can replace them right now, we have three escs working on the robot and one is not working, yes, so tomorrow we will have to get another one. working ESC there, okay, whatever that means, it's not a good first day before fighting and potentially watching our hopes and dreams go up in flames like last time.

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Well, I'm going to change to the other one. I'll make sure the advance is clear. We have four motor controllers working on the robot that they have spun. We turn on all the motors, we are checking the firmware on all the boards. Let's buckle up the robot. Place the weapons in the box. This robot is throwing with my emotions. I don't know, it works, it doesn't work. In some ways it works, in some ways it doesn't, everything is closed and we're looking at all the data now and it's responding very well, so I'm very hopeful that it's trying to connect with what you're not seeing here.

Are we having control problems with the robot? We do not receive data from the computer at regular intervals and that simply makes the robot uncontrollable. We can't fight with the robot in this condition. What's happening with this board is really something about this. The assembly is like it, so we're happy right now and we do this and it's dead, so this wire that's supposed to be soldered there just isn't, so our next hypothesis is that it's just the antenna that got damaged. I still don't know why these guys are not working properly but these have been noticeably worse than the center board so our next test is to try to change the antenna and hopefully that will fix it in the diagnostic process we get to the point at which we're basically ripping off the center dash, so we're going to replace it with another one.

Don't stop to get the robot. Tong, make no mistake, that was fine, except I have a magnet in my hand. Let's look at the magnet sets. If we cut the threads, then we are not going to make the magnets work. If the screws are simply loosened by vibration, we will lock, tap the screws and run the magnets. to change the batteries and prepare several robots uh, we have done everything we can, the boss is turning on all our drivers, they are connecting, at least we have improved our communication, we have seen a unit, our forks are working at least a little better. so I'm hopeful yeah I'm ready all I have to do is turn on the robot and remove the tooth covers believe in fight number three the lucky one the ners are high let's make a messy mess or like disassembled fight fight fight fight fight in 10 9 8 guys come back see you okay that was awesome we got the replay here and this feels good you guys start we look very very good the forks are bent again okay that's how It's supposed to happen, there are some chips on the weapon discs, maybe a little more than we expected, but we destroyed his ar500 weapon and armor, but I guess I don't think we're changing anything, yeah, every time you win a battle. get a wind POG and the idea is you put them on the side of your Bot as kills like in WWII you know you put like any kill count right yeah kill count thanks that means all the who wins a fight in the battle wins, so congratulations, it's our first television recording.

We actually put everything you see, the kids, actually they're all, yeah, perfect, you'll have another morning. Yes, what went well was that we had traction, we could move in a controlled way. My favorite clip is the same. First seconds of the game, when you know that we claimed the center very quickly and then we adjusted to where they were going. I think what needs to change in terms of mobility is that it was spinning too much, so I think there are some stability things that "We can do to start the radio actually worked, so that's the most important thing: we were able to talk to the robot , unfortunately we were struggling to block the view, we made it halfway, but then they were below the camera point, so I couldn't really." You couldn't track much because it was literally blocked, but then the match was over and I thought, wait, it's over, becauseI was looking at the screen and suddenly we walked away, so I was confused.

We have to remove the forks, we're just going to put new ones on, we're going to change the bar, we're going to clean the disc, we bend the Rider right and that's it, I couldn't be happier. After our fight yesterday we went to rebuild the robot, we fixed everything that was broken, we put it back in the box with the old wheels that we were testing in the morning, so now we are going to put it back in the box to have more time. I'm sure it's all good because we are and we want to test AI stuff and then we'll take it back to the pits.

We remove the side armor panels. We change the wheels. We put in new batteries and we'll be ready for our next fight around 3. :30 a whoa a couple of Speedy Bots wow some the little one look at the baby shark it looks like it's ready we're going to send you to orbit messy I think disassembled it's fine it's okay F fight fight fight fight there they go apart from someone what I Worry about little Steve, I'm not going to do it either. I'd stay out of the way, follow him, oh, because you can feel the power of this weapon in disarray.

The little guy's communications go away now that he's on his side, oh no. here we go, okay, this I'm going to need to see some movement or I'm telling you, okay in 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1 knockout yes no fires wow, they're uh, they're destroyed, oh, they're uh they're worried about this, it was better than last time. I do not know what else to say. Our robot is in the same amount of One Piece as last time and the robot is in many more pieces than last time. I don't think we could have literally asked for more, this is the first round where we've really broken the barrier of human control.

Honestly, it was a minor difference, but to say we've done it now feels so good and we did it. the data so we can continue to improve I'm happy we're off the ground All things considered everything went great the team did a great job diagnosing and repairing the robot during the Friday and Saturday morning type of testing the repairs were done last night Beautiful, We had no worries about being ready for today's fight and both fights went very well, they went as well as we could have asked for, it was a lot of fun, I'm glad I did this now, that's what I'm talking about. about I wish I could have been there shortly after the fight, the co-founder of BattleBots said this that they came, you know, like a month or something ago and they lost both fights and then they came this time and won both fights.

I know, he looked at the mistakes they made, they found ways to fix them, they found ways to improve them. I guarantee you that when they show up for the TV tournament, you will know which one it will be, they will be way ahead of everyone. Anything else you don't know isn't coming to play in the opportunity with Proving Grounds, so we're pretty sure we'll be on the TV show, but we've got a lot of work ahead of us if we want to. to win against legendary veterans like Tombstone andame or sa blazs if you want to help support this team and help us get to the world championship and the TV show, here's how you can become a YouTube member, you'll get instant access to a deep dive .

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