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Robotic Combat Resource Links
Need more information about Robotic Combat? Here's some places to start looking.
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BattleBots They may be off the air for now, but BattleBots is going strong, holding BattleBots IQ competitions to get high-school students addicted to Engineering.
Mr. Tentacle's Torque/AH Calculator A cool tool that helps you calculate how much battery power you'll need for your robot.
Robot Combat Links A comprehensive list of team and robot resource sites.
Specialist Calculators These tools do all sorts of specialized engineering and scientific calculations and conversions.
Spinning Discs This page describes the physics of spinning objects in great detail, and has an Excel spreadsheet that calculates Moment of Inertia, KE, and spinup times.
Team Cosmos KE Calculator This Windows-only web application calculates the kinetic energy and spinup times for spinning weapons.
Team DaVinci's Links Page Tons of links to teams, stores and resources, all nicely organized.
The BattleBots Forum One of many robot-related forums on DelphiForums.com, a great place to get advice and chat about robotic combat.
The Builder's Database Just about every US event uses the BuildersDB for event registration. A great place to see who's fighting and who won.
The Fighting Robots Association The major UK umbrella organization for robotic combat. Has an active forum.
The Robot Fighting League The major US umbrella organization for robotic combat. Here you'll find the official rules, links to events, and more.
The Robot Fighting League Forum Along with the BattleBots forum, the RFL forum is a great place to keep up on what's new in the world of robotic combat.
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All Electronics One of our favorite sources for miscellaneous electronic equipment. Lots of inexpensive surplus goodies.
CNC Bot Parts Provides a large number of standard parts such as motor mounts, and does custom machining (you draw up the plans, and they'll make it on the computerized machine tools).
DC Waterjet Need metal cut into strange shapes? DC Waterjet uses the Water-Pik of Doom to slice it exactly the way you want it.
IFI Robotics Home of the popular Victor and Thor speed controllers, and the ISAAC computer radio control system.
McMaster-Carr McMaster has just about every part or tool you could possibly imagine, and a lot more you couldn't. Not the cheapest place to buy, but their huge selection, high quality and devotion to customer service make them more than worth it.
NPC Robotics Many of the most popular drive motors and gearboxes started their lives driving humble wheelchairs.
Online Metals The place to go for small orders of metal in a huge variety of shapes.
Robot Combat One of the best organized and stocked online sources of robot combat parts; you name it, they've got it! You'll get great service from Jim "Nightmare" Smentowski.
Robot Logic A great source for RC mixers, signal boosters, and more.
Robot Power Specializes in robotic speed controllers, including prebuilt OSMC (Open Source Motor Controllers)
Robotic Power Solutions The source of the famed "BattlePacks", batteries that are built to take the serious abuse of robotic combat.
SDP-SI One of the best sources for gears, pulleys and other drive products.
SOZBOTS Specializes in parts for Ant and Beetleweight robots.
Team Delta Features specialty switches, RC interfaces, Speed controllers, wheels and more.
Team Whyachi Robotics The boys from Wisconsin not only make great robots, but sell some of the toughest gearboxes, wheels, speed controllers and switches around. They even do custom machining.
Titanium Joe If you want surplus titanium at reasonable prices, go talk to Joe. He's the supplier of most of the pretty white sparks you see on our videos.
Vantec Makers of industrial-strength speed controllers.
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