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I don't want to but I will continue cheese cakes fight record but give me some time to relax

"you know who also didnt win over his home town...jesus" -- cheesecake

brother i love cheesecake. i have been following you and it for a long time. you have built a beautiful and dangerous machine. you should get someone else to drive it. i 100% guarantee every single car race that there has been in the last 100 years has not been driven by its designer and builder. i 10000% guarantee there has not been 1 ace fighter pilot that has also designed and built the plane he way flying at that time. hire a pilot please - for cheesecake. cheers brother!

So glad to see another video out, I may be a few days late, but still glad to see it

At 13:06 seconds remaining in the Renifield fight how did the other robot manage to be under you but only flip itself over?! 😂

Congrats on the sponsorship!!

Man i wish there were tournaments in phoenix

Skipper was one heck of a beast! You did fantastic!

hi Alex! Perhaps you remember me, I asked about the voltage of your batteries. I’m still building my own combat robot and would really like to know from a professional what tactics are best to choose against this or that type of robot? I'm most interested in how to deal with drum spinners. I hope you notice this comment, thanks in advance.

little spinner > big spinner

Oh dear cheesecake

I think getting that motor and blade balanced perfectly would be a great help for control. Possibly a slightly longer sweet tooth even if its slightly thinner but then it might just get caught on the bottom of the arena more often. Love watching your videos and im sure it is a massive balancing act teying to get everything to work perfectly and be the correct weight.

Do you use Sanwa radios???? Edit at 14:00 would it be worth cutting back your EPA to reduce the twitchy behavior?

Could you machine the weapon disk and collet out of one piece of aluminum/steel/titanium or would you go over on weight?

Good show. Nice work!

Cheddar Goblin driver here It was honor to get to fight you. Cheesecake remains the reigning greatest cheese themed ant weight....

It was great to meet you alex!

It's awesome to see Cheesecake back in action. Kudos on adapting and persisting!

I wonder if a gyro stabilized drive system would help with controllability

I hate to say this but at 1:14 I had seen enough. You REALLY need to "drive" Cheesecake better.

the kid in the first fight NOT FLINCHING when robots are flying towards their face

It appears Cheesecake has a way to go if he's to make it in the big leagues; still, I think the metal arena was a large part of the reson you performed poorly; hitting your weapon against the thick steel cage repeatedly is going to cost a lot of power and the slippery ground gets in the way of your otherwise excellent mobility.

Oh no, he's building Beefcake now. Cheesecake has proven himself to be a great little bot; only against the 1,5x weight bots does he really seem to struggle; I'd ike to see a rematch against Temper, maybe with some improved top armour.

OH NO!

Awesome little bot! It seems like you should maybe dial in some exponential into the steering. There's really no practical need for the little guy to turn so dang fast, and then your control would increase significantly. Also, maybe set a switch on your radio to swap the steering inputs whenever Cheesecake is upside down?

this hobby needs more love

That Renfield was fast. Good match all in all.

The person minding their own business while going to town on that sandwich stole my attention during the second fight. But the control and the 'snipes' against the opponents wheels were so impressive. Every movement felt intentional.

RED VS BLUE REFERENCE RAAAAAAAAAAA

would it help control to reduce the inputs, just seems like theres no ramp on the controls like its all or nothing.

This is good youtube folks!

Control definitely seems to have been Cheesecake's biggest weakness for a while, not just in this tournament.

10:20 why was there an opera singer sitting on an unbalanced washing machine in the background? :D

Hey Alex! Big fan of the cheesecake and the channel. Have you thought about adding an IMU to the bot and implementing some PID control for yawing? Seems like it could make driving and turning a lot more reliable (less overshoot-y) in various states of wheel/drive system damage. Racing drones use a very similar mechanism and it results a very intuitive/second-nature level of control of the drone even as propellers get damaged. Your turning inputs would become desired turning rate in degrees/second rather than a constant motor command relative to the turning input.

Ring spinners sure seem like lame copout bots.

the bot looks more rectangular than I remember

Holy shit Cheesecake is back yipee

I really like the rainbow hue coat on cheesecake's top/bottom plate.

The king posted

Well just like "Jezzus", we finally saw cheesecake get nailed to the cross and taken home to its cave... so that must mean he will soon rise from the dead and be worshipped for the next couple of thousand years 😅

Wow! Are you sure you can call that control?! At this point, it's better to put a barely trained AI in charge. Please fix. Cheesecake is a precision killing machine. Usually.

I didn't go to the event because I didn't know that there was going to be combat robotics there. I have regrets.

that first bot was moving like an austrailian break dancer...

The chromatic effect on the metal looks awesome

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4:59 biggest hit of cheesecake's career

Flipper bots are so lame.

I like how you say you have a control issue... but those two spinners just spin up, have a gyro effect until the spinner touches the floor, and then randomly bounce around and hurt themselves hoping they hurt you more by luck. Thank goodness for judging categories.

Cheesecake our lord and savior

Hey man, inspiring engineer here, thank you for crating these videos it really helps me stay passionate and motivated. If its ok, I'd like to make a suggestion, because of the control issue, maybe you could add a solid ball wheel (just like how a ball point pen works) to the front of Cheesecake just under your spinner so the centrifugal forces can't affect the wheel as much and with the wheel just rolling with the bot and it being Partially inside Cheesecake its won't lift your nose up nearly as much as a normal!