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Links
- BattleBots:
7 events since 1999!
- 1999 Long Beach: Dr. Inferno and Missing Link battled mightily
- 1999 Las Vegas: Slugger slugged mightily
- 2000 San Francisco: Missing Link & Dr. Inferno Jr. fought mightily
- 2000 Las Vegas: Dr. Inferno Jr. combatted mightily
- 2001 San Francisco (May): Dr. Inferno Jr. won the lightweight division, Towering Inferno hammered mightily
- 2001 San Francisco (November): Dr. Inferno Jr. won the lightweight rumbles, Towering Inferno scuffled mightily
- 2002 San Francisco (May): Dr. Inferno Jr. & Towering Inferno warred mightily--results to be posted after they air on TV
- BotBash:
Annual Phoenix, AZ event
- 1999: Dr. Inferno won 3rd place in 12.5kg class, Missing Link won 3rd place in 23kg class
- 2000: Overpowered Box won 2nd place in the middleweights, Missing Link tied for 3rd in points in the heavyweights, Tesseract took 3rd place in demos
- 2001: New 12lb lightweight Hell On Wheels debuted
- 2002: Same-O Inferno won the antweight division & Lame-O was mid-pack, 13lb Hell on Wheels brought up the rear
- RoboJoust:
low-key robot scuffles in a Vegas trailer park!
- 2002: Lame-O Inferno & Same-O Inferno swept with a 1-2 finish!
- Robotica:
The Learning Channel's take on the X-Games of extreme robot sports
- 2001: Mini Inferno was infernally mighty
- Robot Wars UK: the #1-rated show on the BBC, catch it on PBS in the USA
- Robot Wars US: where it all started, now defunct...
- Sozbots:
new 1-pound antweight competition--several competitions a year!
- 2002: Lame-O Inferno scooped mightily to 4th place at Sozbots 1.2 in July!
- 2002: Lame-O & Same-O Inferno ended up midpack in Sozbots 1.3 in August...
- 2002: Same-O Inferno won Sozbots 1.4 in September!
- Steel
Conflict :
new Los Angeles competition
- 2002: Hell on Wheels, Lame-O Inferno, & Same-O Inferno conflicted mightily
- Team Coolrobots: Christian Carlberg and his cool robots
- Robotcombat.com: Jim Smentowski and his thorough links and news
- Team Delta: Dan Danknick and his detailed robot-building pages
- Automatum: From Canada, eh, come Derek's robots with entertaining web pages, eh
- Lungfish Technologies: Phil Putman's understated robots & electromagnetic launchers
- Mutant Robots: Donald Hutson's mutated fighting robots
- Team Sinister: Peter Abrahamson and his evil tanks
- 4QD: maker of beefy electronic speed controllers
- All
Electronics: new & surplus electronics--an adventure!
- I've purchased electronics for hobbies and for Star Trek Borg suit lighting effects from All Electronics
- American
Science & Surplus: a little wacky, but some goodies
- I've bought all sorts of small tools and toys from AS&S--just reading their print catalog is enormously entertaining!
- BattleBots Technical Discussion Forum: share with & learn from other BattleBots builders
- C
& H Sales: awesome surplus store--never know what you'll
find!
- BWEI's and Missing Link's drivetrain motors come from C & H
- Craftsman:
my favorite maker of tools, a division of Sears Roebuck
- Almost all of my tools, Missing Link's gas engines, Dr. Inferno's drill arms, Dr. Inferno Jr.'s reciprocating saw, Rampage & BWEI's weapon motors & batteries are from Craftsman
- eBay (industrial equipment page): find sweet deals on all sorts of hardcore tools and parts
- Futaba:
the premier name in radio control
- Almost all Infernolab robots have been controlled by Futaba transmitters & receivers
- Grainger: another huge catalog, with many items for your shop & bots
- Harbor
Freight: inexpensive discount tools
- Dr. Inferno Jr., Overpowered Box, & Mini Inferno's drive motors were from Harbor Freight, as were the Doctor's circular saws
- Innovation
First: producer of high quality robot control systems for FIRST
(and combat) competitions
- Dr. Inferno Jr.'s weapons and drivetrain were changed over to Victor 883 speed controllers
- Introduction to Mechanisms: awesome reference of mechanics & mechanisms from Carnegie Mellon University
- LEGO:
the best tool for small-scale robots and prototyping, especially the
Mindstorms kits
- 2A & Tesseract remote-control fighting robots were made from LEGO, as were 2 Towering Inferno prototypes
- LUGNET: LEGO Users Group--best unofficial resource & lots of discussion newsgroups
- Lynxmotion: lots of cool kits and parts for small robots
- MatWeb: enormous database of materials--compare strengths, densities, etc.
- McMaster-Carr:
huge catalog of everything!
- So many of my parts came from McMaster-Carr that I can't even begin to list them...
- Mondo-Tronics Robot Store: fun small kits & toys--good for learning
- Mouser
Electronics: all the electric and electronic stuff you need
- Lots of tools and materials, plus most of Dr. Inferno's, Missing Link's, & Dr. Inferno Jr's batteries and chargers came from Mouser
- Mr. Tentacle's Torque/Amp-Hour Calculator: Steve Judd's cool utility to help pick motors & batteries
- Novak
Racing: makes hobby speed controllers, good only for very small
robots
- Speed controllers for Rampage & BWEI were Novak Roosters that took a beating and still work
- NPC Robotics : make & sell great motors/gearboxes/etc for bots of all sizes--great support, too!
- Online Metals: great source for metals and plastics in small quantities--good prices, too
- Power-Sonic
Batteries : decent, inexpensive rechargeable batteries and chargers
- Dr. Inferno, Missing Link, Dr. Inferno Jr., & Mini Inferno all run off of Power-Sonice gel cells
- PTC:
Parametric makes powerful Pro/Engineer CAD software, great for designing
bots
- Towering Inferno was designed entirely in Pro/Engineer before being built
- Robot Science & Technology Magazine: print and web robot mag
- Robot Books: excellent resource for handbooks, references, kits, toys, etc.
- Robotic
Power Solutions: Steve Hill's awesome robotic BattlePack batteries--custom
work too!
- Dr. Inferno Jr. & Hell on Wheels run on BattlePacks, and Steve even modified the Dr.'s batteries in the pits at an event for me!
- Sesco
Data Systems:
the least expensive sealed lead acid gel cells that I've ever seen
- I got Power-Sonice batteries for my electric scooter from Sesco
- Smiley
Antenna Co:
fancy rubber antennas to replace your radio transmitter's telescoping
one
- I added an RC Power Duck to my Futaba 6XA transmitter--bright red even!
- Specialty
Tool and Bolt: every type of fastener you can imagine and much
much more
- Specialty Tool supplied me with all the bits to assemble Towering Inferno, Dr. Inferno, and Hell on Wheels, and lots of other goodies
- Team
Delta: Dan makes and sells handy dandy electronics stuff geared
toward combat robots
- Dan's various electronics & hardware have made it into many of my bots
- Tekin Electronics: makes hobby speed controls, good for very small robots
- Titanium Resource Int'l: super prices on Ti renmants & surplus
-
Tower Hobbies: the biggest remote-control catalog out there
- All my radio equipment and accessories, plus many more goodies, came from Tower
- Urethane
Rubber: get custom urethane products for tread, shock-mounting,
etc.
- Towering Inferno's urethane rubber tread is from Urethane Rubber
- Vantec:
popular maker of awesome robot electronic speed controllers
- Dr. Inferno, Missing Link, Dr. Inferno Jr., Mini Inferno, & Towering Inferno are all driven through Vantecs
- AIBO: the world's first mass-produced robot pet, by Sony
- Burning Man: annual desert festival with all sorts of insane contraptions and machines
- Dr. Megavolt: OK, he's a person, not a robot, but you've never seen Tesla Coils like this!
- Honda Humanoid Robot: the most human-like robot out there--wow
- NASA's Cool Robot of the Week: all sorts of neat robots
- Robots Wanted, Dead or Alive: Robert Doerr's info on "classic" home robots and kits (Dr. Inferno & Dr. Inferno Jr. were once Tomy Omnibots, detailed here)
- The Seemen: a crazy bunch of guys who make huge robots and then put on destructive art shows with them
- Survival Research Labs: the name in huge, explosive, dangerous robot art
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