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My BattleBot Design

Guest post by our son (5th Grade)

So my current bot has forks that tears apart bots with a short range flipper. I started with a standard EV3 bot from mindstorms in a lego store. I started with TRACK3R bot design and went on from there. I started with a flipper and it worked for a while but dad topped it with a lower design and a more powerful flipper. It worked for a while until he broke my newly improved flipper with a drive motor which worked better than my previous one with a median motor. Personally I think it would work better with a drive motor because it covers two side so you have twice the damage done to your opponent. By the way the standard kit only comes with two drive motors so we got an extra. After I improved my flipper, he broke and I was left with a fork to stab him with and I won, so I decided to try out pitchforking my dad and it actually worked I win most matches against my dad now.

Slightly modified since description: forks re-joined as a flipper.

Why LEGO BattleBots?

My son and I first started building LEGO “robots” when he was much younger. But with BattleBots, the TV series, we were inspired to build motorized, remote controlled robots. In summer of 2018, I finally was able to get the various components of our BattleBot system(s) working so that we could operate two bots simultaneously. This was tremendous fun, and I can’t believe there aren’t more resources out there to enable more people to create, compete, and destroy (with) each other using LEGO Mindstorms.

This site tries to convey much of what I learned through the process, as well as our ongoing saga of modifying and improving our bots. Please feel free to contact us with edits, corrections, suggestions, or ideas.