{"id":153,"date":"2015-12-20T20:09:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T20:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darylwhite.net\/?p=153"},"modified":"2016-02-04T20:10:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T20:10:20","slug":"thoughts-on-robot-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/2015\/12\/20\/thoughts-on-robot-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on robot wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well that&#8217;s my 1st robot wars competition over and done with and I can say I have much to improve on !<\/p>\n<p>Movement &#8211; Servos modified for 360 degree rotation have lots of drift and thus slowly rotate when you want it to happen least. Use proper servos or motors and drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Battery life &#8211; 300 mAh batteries are fine but excess weapon motor useage will deplete them. Locate the charging port to somewhere that&#8217;s easy to access for charging between rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Amour &#8211; All cables *must* be projected from cut damage or you risk losing the round early as the green machine experienced.<\/p>\n<p>Overall though I felt I did alright and got through to the 3rd round.<\/p>\n<p>Video recording of the event by BEEES<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"University of Bristol Robot Wars 3\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LFh9DPGeoZ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well that&#8217;s my 1st robot wars competition over and done with and I can say I have much to improve on ! Movement &#8211; Servos modified for 360 degree rotation have lots of drift and thus slowly rotate when you want it to happen least. Use proper servos or motors and drivers. Battery life &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robot-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}