White_Comanche Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Curious if there's any Robot Combat fans on Comanche Club?? Recently I discovered Battlebots last year, and have really got into watching this sport! BB really has never been on my radar because I always thought it as being a 'kids show'. I was totally wrong. The sport has evolved so much since the old days on Comedy Central. Bots get totally WRECKED after many fights. Teams often pour 10s of thousands of dollars designing, engineering, and developing their robots. Did you know that a 250lb heavy weight bot can easily have $50,000 invested in it? True. Pretty fascinating stuff when you start learning that most builders/teams even have their very own machine shop. For anyone on CC that likes to work with their hands (like everyone) check the TV show out sometime! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Ok my wife put this on about a year or so ago when she was sick and she became addicted to it and so every now and then we watch it. Tombstone and duck! are favorites in the house. I know I’m not old enough but I remember when it was robotwars. But the time and effort that goes into building all these bots is damn crazy. Course think about what we dump into our Jeeps and projects that would otherwise make others think it’s damn crazy as well. Haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White_Comanche Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 Hell yeah! Much like your wife, I came across the show and started watching it. After a while BB grew on me. Before I knew it, I became addicted to getting my fix every night. I have several favorite bot/teams. But my #1 is definitely Minotaur. That Brazilian team engineered a very effective and compact robot. After watching all the available World Championships, I got on YouTube and discovered team Skorpios has a channel. This was when my fascination of the sport really took hold. It offers behind-the-scenes of many competitors. Their 'Secrets Of' videos are them visiting people such as... Ray Billings of Tombstone, Whyachi family in Wisconsin, Paul Ventimiglia behind BiteForce, the California dad of Yeti, and many more. Here's their Tombstone video. They also have one all about Duck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
75sv1 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 12 hours ago, eaglescout526 said: Ok my wife put this on about a year or so ago when she was sick and she became addicted to it and so every now and then we watch it. Tombstone and duck! are favorites in the house. I know I’m not old enough but I remember when it was robotwars. But the time and effort that goes into building all these bots is damn crazy. Course think about what we dump into our Jeeps and projects that would otherwise make others think it’s damn crazy as well. Haha. Rock'em Sockem Robots? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 5 minutes ago, 75sv1 said: Rock'em Sockem Robots? Lol not that game. I really remember there a show being called robotwars in the early 2000’s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 53 minutes ago, White_Comanche said: Hell yeah! Much like your wife, I came across the show and started watching it. After a while BB grew on me. Before I knew it, I became addicted to getting my fix every night. Lol got a lot to catch up on. I think we’re coming in close to the latest season. It definitely is an addicting show. Like more addicting than I thought. That and faruq’s intros are pretty fun to listen to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White_Comanche Posted February 28 Author Share Posted February 28 11 hours ago, eaglescout526 said: Faruq’s intros are pretty fun to listen to. Yes, and to get all of his cultural references, ya gotta be just a little old... and probably schooled during the 90s. Chris Rose & Kenny really make the show too! A new season was just announced. Filming for 2026 will begin in April. Episodes will air in mid Summer. 20 teams will be competing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 16 minutes ago, White_Comanche said: Yes, and to get all of his cultural references, ya gotta be just a little old... Usually do haha. Can’t wait. Which means wife and I will need to get caught up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete M Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 don't have time to watch much tv these days, but I absolutely watched the hell out of battlebots' first run on Comedy Central 25 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComancheKid45 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Battlebots has been a staple in my house for years 👍🇺🇸 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pizzaman09 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 I did BattleBots in highschool. It was 15 lb weight class which is plenty of weight to put a lot of power into one. My brother and I were the first team locally to start using brushless motors, and speed controllers from a new company named Castle Creations. It was a ton of fun! I do remember watching the old robot wars on Comedy Central back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
75sv1 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 ked up an 80 AMP Castle Creations Thunderbird controller and an ATXi 2820-8 motor for $20 this past weekend. I'll have to see if the motor is big enough for a Great Planes Stuka I bought. The Speed Controller will be an upgrade from the off shore one. I put a Thunderbird in a Flyzone FW-190. Really helped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White_Comanche Posted March 4 Author Share Posted March 4 On 3/1/2026 at 11:29 AM, pizzaman09 said: I did BattleBots in highschool. It was 15 lb weight class Hey that's really cool! Small world I guess. Been learning that robot fighting is surprisingly big in this country (and others too). 15 pound bots pack quite a bit inside them. 5 pounds less than a 20 pound dumbbell. Not exactly light weight. What weapon type did you kids roll with? There's loads more questions I could ask, but did the design perform well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatJeepGuy Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 Sirkillalot! Was an original favorite of mine back in the day -kinda the judge of the match if I remember it correctly - omnibously hanging out as a house bot in the arena and if you were the unlucky one to be plucked by this monster - you got dropped in to "game over" pit. Competitor wise I liked Ziggo from back in the day. The creator named it after his cat and that machine laid waste to many competitors. Still throw it on here and there from the YouTube for the more recent bouts - its entertaining for sure. Just don't follow it too closely though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pizzaman09 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 On 3/3/2026 at 9:59 PM, White_Comanche said: Hey that's really cool! Small world I guess. Been learning that robot fighting is surprisingly big in this country (and others too). 15 pound bots pack quite a bit inside them. 5 pounds less than a 20 pound dumbbell. Not exactly light weight. What weapon type did you kids roll with? There's loads more questions I could ask, but did the design perform well? We did it for two years. The first year was a wedge shaped bot with a 2 lb aluminum wheel that we cast out of aluminum. There were two HSS lathe tool bits sticking out of the wheel to bite into other bots, it was spun by an 800W brushless out runner moter around 5k rpm. It packed a punch. The second year we built two bots. One was a helicopter type bot that had 1 lb blades at the ends of the rotor. That one did a great job chopping firewood. The second bot was a multi-bot, a 13.5 lb robot with a 10000 rpm beater bar and a second tiny 1.5 lb wedge that drove around separately. Generally our achilies heel was poor drivetrains, the weapons were over powered for their size and the drive was not particularly functional. A year after I graduated highschool, the team went on to refine the beater bar robot with an excellent drivetrain. They did well. This definitely stated off a long history of projects like this for me which resulted in me becoming a mechanical engineer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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