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"I really love SL for designing robots," he tells me. Bring MINDSTORMS EV3 into your high school classroom with hands-on lesson plans, software downloads, teaching resources, building instructions and FAQs. It was a pain but worth it."Ĭonstantine says he gave a shout-out to Second Life in the post-match interview. Over 1000 people got together for 2 weeks and not one single new case or transfer instance of COVID. We were the first post-COVID lock down production and tested all the COVID rules for safe theatre. "Fight, fix, fight and fix all day every day. "It's an insane amount of work for 2 weeks," he says. Real life being real life, taking Sharky from SL to Battlebots came with its own unique challenges, especially during a global pandemic: Sharky as featured on the Discovery channel show page But that was just because sharks that don't bite suck." I also changed it from a spinner as originally designed to being a flipper/ control bot. I changed that for the first RL build, was proven wrong and went back to the original design for this latest one. "The original design had a sharply pointed nose in the SL version that I didn't think would work in RL but worked great in SL. I wish we had better physics."Īs for Sharky, which will make its way from Second Life onto the Discovery Channel tonight: " perfect for setting the center of gravity my bots are mostly two wheelers so that's tantamount. Fighting his battle bots in Second Life against others can also lead to improvements:
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He spends weeks of trial and error on this process. If it doesn't fit in SL it won't fit in RL." I mock up frames and find errors in my design that save me tons of time prior to RL assembly. You also have to be able to get to things to repair them.
I want to fit in the biggest one I can and at $350 each starting price, I can't afford to buy dozen motors just for size testing. I can test different motor sizes and gearing systems with a click. It would cost me a small fortune to do that in real life. "In Second Life, I made all the individual components and can easily reconfigure them into different frames and test beds. "It takes a lot of parts in a small package," he says. Tweaked and finally ready to wreak destruction, Constantine took Excelsior to fight in China, at King of Bots II.Īs a prototyping platform, Second Life shines most for him when figuring out how individual pieces of the battle bot will fit together: The SL model saved me a huge mistake on that one because I could see the motor wouldn't go in place through the frame." If I had built that as drawn it would have been a waste of thousands of dollars in materials and time. It looked great assembled in the drawing, but there was no way to get the motor in or out. "I hadn't noticed there wasn't enough room for the lower drive motor to slide in the frame," he explains. "įor instance, he previously designed a battlebot dubbed Excelsior on paper, then built it in Second Life - and only then saw a problem with its design: "Only a few make it past SL to RL, as it costs around $20k each to build. "I have built a slew of failures in SL," he tells me, laughing.
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