Cheesecake has Deja Vu! (June Jumble 2023)
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- Cheesecake has a sturdier weapon now, and an appetite for other robots! Cheesecake is my 1lb "antweight" combat robot, a smaller version of the robots on the TV show "BattleBots".
And yes, the more I review the footage, the more I think I should have called my own battery out even though the referee did not.
Basic rules of combat robotics:
- Each fight is 2 to 3 minutes long.
- The goal is to disable your opponent so they can no longer move, 10 second count out.
- You can only pin your opponent for 10 seconds maximum.
- You can tap out at any time.
- If both robots are still mobile at the end of the fight, then a panel of three judges declares a winner by scoring each robot in terms of damage (done to the opponent), aggression (how much they each initiate the engagements) and control (how well they are each able to drive and move around).
- The weight limit for "ants" is 1lb, or 454 grams.
- Certain weapon types are banned, including chemical weapons, radio jammers, and often flamethrowers in these smaller weight classes.
Full ruleset:
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Thumbnail photo by KimLikesFlowers
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Antweight practice target:
www.etsy.com/listing/1466981540
Tournaments near you:
www.robotcombatevents.com/
Buy robot parts:
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palmbeachbots.com/
www.fingertechrobotics.com/
Event: www.robotcombatevents.com/eve...
Bracket: challonge.com/zt0t3is
GSCRL: gscrl.org/
0:00 - Upgrades
0:56 - Tournament
1:20 - Lowbot
1:43 - Cheesecake vs Lowbot
3:23 - Post-fight #1
3:42 - Tournament seeding
3:51 - Cheesecake vs Lowbot #2
5:41 - Post-fight #2
6:06 - Under Construction
6:27 - Cheesecake vs Under Construction
9:14 - Post-fight #3
10:13 - Nomad
10:35 - Cheesecake vs Nomad
10:53 - Post-fight #4
11:26 - Finals setup
11:36 - Finals
12:20 - Post-fight #5
12:50 - Post-tournament analysis - Věda a technologie
Love to see how shrapnel and damaged parts are shared among each other in the combat robot community. It's a good way to help the combat robots grow.
You own, what you kill😎
Make a bot that glues the small parts to itself every time it wins. Call it “battlescar”
@eeveethingys4576 I feel like over time, that might cause it to exceed the robots' weight limits lol
12:56 I love how the gyro effect from the weapon prevents cheesecake from flipping over despite being tossed high up in the air. it’s such a beautiful wobble!
Yeah I thought that was cool too!
It is kinda cool that you have this little rivalry with that Dulce robot, and that its got to a point where they made an attachment just to deal with your sweet tooth, some nice competitiveness.
Look forward to future content.
I was about to comment this, but you beat me to it. Yeah it’s kinda funny if you became enough of a menace to one bot that they had built an attachment just for you.
To be fair, I started it: The Sweet Tooth was specifically designed for Dulce de Lucha because he was such a menace to me :P
@@alexsalchemyYour vids with cheesecake are the best!
It's like watching adversarial insects evolve
@@alexsalchemynow it’s time for “sweet teeth” because that one tooth might get caught in the middle of the ramp
Hello everyone! Some notes:
1. The more I review the footage, the more I think I should have called my own battery out even though the referee did not.
2. My driving is indeed noticeably worse than my last tournament.
3. My battle-hardened motors worked extremely well, and I never had one die, so I forgot to even mention them later on. Isn't it nice when things just work?
Every match is a lesson. Nice weapon !😊
ok im not a expert on these bot tournaments. heck this is the only fights I've looked at in a long time. but. its not your fault your bot wasn't called out bcs of the battery rule thing. but to me it looked fine. to me the one guy that you knocked out you literally had exposed his battery. yours wasn't exposed it was still in its casing. ive played sports all my life and sometimes people just get away with things. rather it be an accident something happened or intended. you did great and your bot performed well. the judges are thier to call the fight if they see a issue and they didn't see any issue.
Under Construction driver here, still glad that we both had a good time with the fight… and beware, a new challenger is approaching
You honestly inspire me to do what I was planning on doing for years, but was lazy/scared to do.
You seem to have so much fun fixing problems that appear and then trying out the design to figure out what else you could improve
the gyroscopic effects while flying through the air after the hit at 12:20 were amazing
I love seeing how well the sweet tooth is working. A seemingly minor addition to a bot has completely alleviated some of the trouble you had with wedge-bots by flipping them on to their roof. Amazing!
You're absolutely right, I feel like this was the missing piece to make Cheesecake a serious contender. Now I just have to figure out how to fight undercutters 0_o I have a couple ideas, you might see one in my next tournament ;)
As a former tournament admin both in fun local events and larger major video game events, if you get double jeopardy like with lowbot you shouldn't feel bad about speaking up to whoever made the bracket. When a bracket is drafted it shouldn't result in facing someone twice without rounds in between, or at the end of the bracket. If your goal is fun and to improve your robot, this means you face less unique opponents. If your goal is to win, this can be very bad if someone gets the same bad matchup twice. In almost every instance that's either a mistake, or an admin just didn't think about it being a potential problem. It's more fun and more fair for everyone if you let admins know when it happens.
Nice!
I don't think you should've called out your own battery being exposed, it was still fully protected in the bot (just some extra ventilation, but the top and bottom were still extending over it) and with the other bot weapon being disabled there was very little chance of the battery getting hit.
The battery rule is there primarily so the organizers don't have to deal (as much) with lipo fires and is only really applicable when the battery is fully exposed outside the bot so it could get damaged in a collision between the bots, or exposed enough that a weapon could easily hit it, neither was the case here.
I think if the opponent had a big pointy spike on the front it would've been different.
more cooling for battery lol
Agreed. Maybe "battery endangered" or "battery under threat" would be clearer language.
Cheesecake is a beast! Definitely makes me want to try building a bot of my own. These tournaments bring me back to my childhood watching battle bots 😸 very cool
Agreed, although I used to watch a similar show called Robot Wars.
The series is, as far as I know, no longer airing however battles are still taking place
You should! All the little bot events are really welcoming.
Isn't it a great feeling when your opponent designs a weapon specifically to handle you. 🙃
i wonder if the white bits of armor are hollow on cheesecake? maybe having lattice or some sort of honeycomb in there would give you more armor and a larger surface area of defence for weapons like what cheesecake has.
Oh yes, the white armor is 3D printed. The sides are TPU with 10% infill, and the back is ABS with 10% infill, so they have a 3D honeycomb structure inside, and you can kind of see it in the damage I sustain.
This takes me back to filming the robotic combat fights at DragonCon about 15 years ago. The little ones are so fun. But I have to say, y'all look a lot more agile than what they drove back then.
You're absolutely right, motors and batteries have come a long way since the early 2000s, and it's made all levels of competition so much more fun.
Enemy bot: has wheels
Cheesecake: is for me?
I love the rivalry of Cheescake and Dulce De Lucha
I really enjoy these videos. It's action-packed and educational packed into a nice story. Videos aren't too long or too short either. Thank you for making these.
love how the spinner acts as a gyro scope to stop it from flipping over
Great video, your commentary and analysis are great as are your editing and focus on key moments within each fight. It's always a delight to see your tournament footage.
Please do more!!! These are amazing to watch
when your opponents specifically make attachments against your bot specifically, that means you have a op bot.
You are criminally underrated 😢. Your videos are amazing!
I am so glad I have found this channel, the combination of robot combat combined with great presentation and spot humour is great 👍
I LOVE, the content you provide, hope to see more carnage from Cheesecake!
How did the battle hardening the motors went I see you haven't mentioned it so it went good.
If I were you I would make a tiny compartments for the battery and other components so even if they were exposed they would stay put safe inside as far away from the enemy as posible, and not get yeted around while in the air.
Oh yeah! My weapon motors never died, even after one of them got hit by Under Construction, so that's a success! I totally forgot to mention that because they just worked, haha.
I love your Cheesecake! Looking forward to your next battles!
Love these video's and i love cheesecake even tho i literally just discovered the channel yestetday ive already watched the entire back catalog! Cant wait for more cheesecake action!
I just love this, dude
The vibe, the bot, the name, the narration
This is an amazing and entertaining way of showing us this hobby and the fights
You deserve a lot more popularity and i can’t wait until the next video
Great battles from Cheesecake. I would like to see it compete in future Motorama events. It would have a very good chance walking away with the antweight title.
I normally watch the larger weight classes, but this was good content. Keep up the good work.
Great driving paired with stellar engineering. It's a beauty to see. I love how the design plays into your strengths as a driver. Durable enough to survive a couple of hits, but not a tank. Weapon specialized at ripping off wheels when the opportunity presents itself, but not so heavy as to compromise speed.
Congrats! May the cheese always be with you.
I am so glad I now watch this channel.
Love these little videos, though for some reason I've got the Homer Simpson's "mmm... cheesecake... nomnom" thoughts every time you start explaining anything XD
See you in August CheeseCake, ShotGun will be rebuilt and ready for rematch (tho I hope not until deep into the tournament)
you really deserve 100k subs, i love this video! never was interested in this sport but now i am
Thank you so much! I enjoy telling the story and getting other people interested! Feel free to share with your friends, it's a fun sport that most people can get their heads around fairly quickly.
I love your videos, and I just love cheesecake when ever I see your videos my mind just want me to create battlebots thack you so much for inspiring me and others. 🤩
That's awesome! Give it a shot! For me, my inspiration was Carter Hurd's robot "Krave Monster":
czcams.com/video/NX9vPZiAFpc/video.html
Congratulations Cheesecake!! That was an epic tournament. It would be good to see some of the other matches to see how much diff that exposed battery might have made to the outcome. But it was still behind the weapon right? So not fully exposed. I think you deserved the win. Despite the drunk driving! "I swear officer! That wall just jumped out in front of me!" 😂
I’ve only seen April annihilation and this and I already adore cheese cake
I'm so glad I stumbled across Cheesecake. I've only known him for five minutes and I'd die for the little spicy home base plate!
I love cheesecake....and your robot too. ;)
It really is the year of the horizontal
you should make a bigger version of cheesecake for the actual battlebots tournaments
Seriously great work, Alex. You definitely deserved the win. I'm a mechanical engineer who loves to race my NC miata in regional autocross events. Similarly to robot combat, a significant part of the success is in all the preparation. The actual driving is only 50-60% of the equation.
Oh that's cool! I'm actually also a mechanical engineer, and you're right about these types of events coming down to roughly half driving and half engineering.
I love the idea of the sweet tooth and was wondering if it would be possible to put one on both the top and bottom of Cheesecake, in case you get flipped over, which would disable the sweet tooth.
I've thought about doing exactly that. I'd have to take some weight out of somewhere else, but it's a good idea. For now, I figure I'll just hit my opponent's wedge to flip myself back over if necessary... wish me luck lol.
I have no idea why this is recommended to me, but I'm all for it
Imagine going to a fair and you hear some weird humming then some sparks
i am loveing this
Man you have a similar cadence in your voice to lockpickinglawyer that makes these vids kinda mesmerising 😄 but seriously good work, go team Cheesecake!
"Not my fault, someone put a wall in my way" good old Red vs Blue
That was the worst throw, ever. Of all time.
As someone who messes with 3d printing more than I would care to admit, I suggest doing some experimenting with certain filaments, particularly the carbon fiber infused filaments and maybe even flexible filaments to deflect kinetic energy.
Positive influence when your opponents deliberately have to kit to go against you
Dude these would be amazing as a kit bot!! I would love one
I've thought about it, but in my opinion, kit robots should not be so good that they can easily win tournaments right out of the box: they should be more of an entry point for people to learn how to drive and how to improve a design.
i hope you considered by balancing, that static balance is different from rotational balance
I'm so invested in cheesecake
Cheesecake is the one Bot that makes me glad I plan on doing antweights in my lake state instead of the New England Area
I keep on wondering if there's a way to make an electric zapper an effective weapon.
Electrical weapons are not allowed, along with radio jammers and EMPs and entanglement devices like nets. It's kind of like how boxers are not allowed to use poison: it wouldn't be very entertaining... or, you know, ethical.
I’m new here but I love cheesecake so I’m staying for the journey.
Against an undercutter something that might work is to simply take your basic sweet tooth design and put a bit of a chamfered cup/puck on the front, forcing the opponent's blade downwards underneath your front frame assembly and then raising your weapon right up into the front face of their robot. If you can smack them in the face before they can smack you in the tire you can (theoretically) come out better in that engagement since they physically cannot hit you from the front.
Don't spoil the surprise ;)
@@alexsalchemy semi competent minds think alike I suppose.
So, I've been binge watching robot battling videos, and my brain came up with a concept.
Let's say, I dunno, a fae or something of that size created a robot for tournaments that has a cockpit on top, so they can directly operate it.
Let's assume there's magic so that the cockpit itself is practically indestructible, the pilot is safe.
Would that still be allowed, if it was confirmed the pilot would be fine? And if so, what kind of advantages and disadvantages might it bring?
For visualisation, I'm imagining like, a little glass dome on top of the robot. Assume it's designed after Cheesecake if the type of robot is too big of a factor to say otherwise.
this is still epic
What is the weight limit on these gladiators?
Nice fights to all!!! U sure know your tactics and materials!
Thanks.
These "antweight" robots are limited to 1 lb or 454 grams. The next largest weight class is "beetleweight" which is 3lbs, with the next most common classes being 12 lbs and 30 lbs. The BattleBots TV show robots weigh 250 lbs.
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You get a like just for the Caboose quote OMEGALUL.
Against Dulce de Lucha's new attachment, could you do "sweet teeth" and have two at 45 degrees?
This is the legend of cheesecake
This is so cool
This bot is amazing.
I love Cheesecake.
I love it😀
Where do you look to find events like this? Maybe I could go to one someday!
Robotcombatevents.com, there are a lot of upcoming events!
great vids
i love these little bots
Dang, that's a killer bot you got!
"wasn't my fault, they put a wall in my way"
It's been a long time but is the Caboose from RvB?
if you can, or can not I have an idea for the next weapon you should add on the cheesecake so the weapon should be a vertical saw next to the sweet tooth on both sides so the special attachment next time if you meet the other, bot he won’t be able to use it good anymore
have u tried using ptfe domes on both sides of the motor screws so it protects the screws and deacreases friction and stop it from getting snagged on the floor with the screws ?
I'm probably just going to use countersunk screws instead: nice and flush with my black chassis plates.
@@alexsalchemy countersunk screws may be more of a problem due to making the carbon more thinner especially if u put it into the weapon area unless u beef up the lower plate or make a brass shimm to stop the carbon from twisting but would need testing tbh
Its so cool that you have people making attachments just for cheesecake
It'll be even cooler when Cheesecake still beats them ;)
And to be fair, The Sweet Tooth was originally made just for Dulce de Lucha, so it's my fault the violence is escalating, haha.
@@alexsalchemy I bet they also were elated when someone found them enough of a threat to make an attachment for as well
@@Freegrem - Oh yeah, but they knew that already: they took first place twice in a row at some previous tournaments, so they had a big target on their back.
Go Cheesecake!
Lowbot knew cheesecake can easily rip off wheels and he protected it
Congratulations.
Sweet!
🎉 WOOOOOO CHEESECAKE! He's awesome 🎉
The next step is to create a sweet teeth attachment to combat the sweet tooth counter
You should just test the special attachment ahead of time to learn what you can change.
I love cheesecake! Really needs a better driver lool :P
I dont know a lot about battle bots, what is the means of attack of wedges and why are they scary?
Well, wedges can't inflict damage directly, but they can use your own weapon's energy against you by surviving your attacks and waiting for you to break yourself. They can also dominate in their aggression and control, which are the other two categories the judges score on apart from damage, if the match goes to full time and becomes a judge's decision.
Wedges are especially scary for horizontal spinners because the wedge deflects the horizontal spinner up and away and the wedge takes very little if any damage in the process.
What brushless motor do you use for your weapon
D2822 1800KV, FlashHobby brand, with my own mechanical modifications.
00:50 did you modify your motors top screw holes for bigger screws? what did you use? M2 or M2.5?
Nope, they're the same M2 holes as before, not modified by me, but I'm using some countersunk screws from McMaster whose heads are small enough to fit next to the central shaft, despite how close the M2 holes are to said shaft.
@@alexsalchemy thank you so much for the reply! Is there any chance you can share a link to the screws that you used or possibly a part number for McMaster? I'm very interested as I'm building my own weapon system for a horizontal spinner but using the same motor. Thanks again!
Cheesecake is a BEAST
how do wedge bots win competitions? I don't know a lot about the hobby/sport and have been quite curious for some time now.
A wedge bot is unlikely to knock out their opponent, so they usually win by judge's decision. Most events are judged in three categories like the TV show: damage to your opponent, aggression initiating the engagements, and control over your robot. As long as a wedge bot doesn't take too much damage, they can usually win on aggression and control by pushing their opponent around the arena, and possibly by breaking their opponent's weapon.
Where can I get those Wheels you had?
I actually made them myself using Onshape to 3D model them.
lowbot comes back
4:50 knockback
4:55 mini crit
5:00 flipped opponent
5:12 lowbot grabs cheesecake because cheesecake killed him/her
5:24 guy helps cheesecake
6:01 aggressive attack
6:06 lowbot says i regret fighting you
which transmitter and reciever did you use
I use the Noble NB4 transmitter and the receiver it comes with.
How much did cheesecake cost? Any guesses?
Cheesecake rn: "Mhhmhhmhm yummy tires :)"
Cheesecake's record (as of video)
25(21)-10(4)
Is there any community engaging in this hobby in Germany? Sounds fun!
There is a group in Sweden, but I don't know about Germany.
czcams.com/video/3WgjD7JRpQc/video.htmlsi=rgpU5HeEl_Jasvih
The sweet tooth is a very very smart idea
Thank you! I think that's been the single biggest reason why Cheesecake is doing so much better this year. I can finally beat wedge bots.
Are these really only 1lb? :o
I know their small but I feel like those would still be a couple pounds.
Cool Vid though, Mini battle bots :)
It is funny how antweight is different between the USA and Australia
@alexsalchemy What's so amazing in my eyes is that the driver of dulche is a young man who looks to be no older then about 12 or 13. That boy definitely has got some skill! And being that young it means he's really just getting started in the sport, and I can only imagine what he may come up with next!! Id say keep an eye on him cuz hes gonna go far+ & his driving skills are without a doubt top notch!!! Its Just crazy to me how young he is! He's definitely a badass!! And has 100% earned my vote as best up incoming antbot pilot!!!
Some body needs to make this a giant thing on you tube
It's already become giant from my perspective. I never expected this channel to blow up the way it has over the past week or so, but thank you for your support!
what if you made a little sheild for your wepon that goes on the bottom and you called it cheese cake jr
The cake slice isn't here? Why?
It hadn't been invented yet! It was my fight against Under Construction in this tournament that forced me to invent it, and man does it make a difference!