Absolute Chaos Robotics

Absolute Chaos Robotics

GSCRL May the 4th event

This past weekend we went out to compete at GSCRL’s May The 4th Be With You event and had a great time. I had been trying to bring my daughter along to one of these events since last October, but scheduling conflicts kept pulling her away at the last minute. This time she finally made…

GSCRL Spring Smash (and upcoming Jolt! kit upgrades)

This past weekend I brought three bots to GSCRL’s Spring Smash event. I went through a combined 17 matches, at times having to go through three matches in a row with only enough time to drop off one bot in the pits and grab the next. In the end I emerged with with one 2nd…

Upgrades for 2024

2023 is drawing to a close, and I am done with competitions until next year, but I am still tweaking and building to be back better than ever next year. Portable Apocalypse v4.2 Now that the new v2.1 of the Jolt! kits are sporting improvements that Portable Apocalypse tested first (like the new key blades),…

Jolt! Kits v2.1

The latest iteration of the Jolt! Kits is now available, featuring some upgrades to the weapon setup for improved bite and reliability! Also, we now have a set of 3D/animated assembly instructions available to make the assembly process even more understandable!

Upgrades for my first GSCRL event

A little more than a week remains until my first GSCRL event, and I finally (again) have both of the bots I’ll be bringing ready to go. We had been planning for my daughter to be accompanying me for this to be her second event as a driver, but due to a scheduling conflict I…

Experimentation in shufflers

While most combat robots are limited to a fixed weight limit (eg. 1lbs, 3lbs, 12lbs), many events allow a 1.5x weight bonus for robots using a shuffler system for locomotion as a way to encourage more diversity in designs. Improvements in the motors available to drive these shuffler systems in recent years have made them…

NHRL May ’23 and the debut of the new Jolt! Kit

As I write this my day is done, but the last couple rounds are still winding down at the NHRL. Portable Apocalypse, my personal build of the new version of the Jolt! Kits, made it through to 17th place out of a field of 158 3lb bots, and with a tweak or two could have…

New 3lb Kit Now Available: Jolt! v2

The new Jolt! Kit v2 is now available to be purchased over at my shop! This kit keeps most of the destructive potential of the older version of the kit, but increases the control, drivability, and durability with a new 4WD setup. Purchase one and unleash the destruction on the competition today! Our personal build…

NHRL December 2022, Future Plans

Now that it has come and gone, time to look back at how things went at the NHRL finals. Bottom Feeder Bottom Feeder was my main reason for being at the finals, and I thought that I had improved on the places that I saw issues back in May, so I came in with high…

2022 Year End review

2022 is almost gone, and while I was only able to make it to one event this year and I plan on attending the NHRL finals in December, a lot of development has happened with my robots. With a new daughter to take care of it seems unlikely that I will get to attend many…

NHRL 2022 Finals Prep – Bottom Feeder (and Apex Predator)

Bottom Feeder managed to qualify for NHRL’s December finals back in May, I won’t have any opportunities to compete between now and then, and after the end of August my free time for building will be severely limited. So that means I had about 3 months to figure out design upgrades for Bottom Feeder, get…

NHRL May ’22 – The Debut of Omnivore and Bottom Feeder

NHRL’s May event has come and gone, so it’s time to introduce and review the performance of the two bots I built for the event. New 3lb – Omnivore Omnivore is my new 3lb bot as the next iteration of the design I started last year with Apex Predator. Since this event was restricted to…

New 1lb Bot: Mesopredator

After the good first showing of Apex Predator in November’s Norwalk event, I started to want to make something similar for the 1lb category as well, since it has now been a few years since I had really made a new 1lb design. Since this is in many ways a smaller version of the 3lb…

Apex Predator v1.1

The design of the new version of Apex Predator is now complete, and it is now 2/3 built, with the electrical work and the carbon fiber plates being the remaining work to do before it would be ready to compete. Since the first iteration performed fairly well back at November’s Norwalk event, the design is…

Event Report : Norwalk Havoc

I finally made it out to November’s Norwalk Havoc event, and it was definitely a different experience. I talked with some of the competitors there who had also competed on the BattleBots TV show who said that the production value for NHRL was about on par with the TV show, and I believe it. Since…

Antisocial Distancing Build Log

With only a few weeks between deciding to finally step up to the next weight class and build a 12lb and actually needing to have it ready to fight, I had to get moving to get everything finished in time. The CAD wasn’t even 100% done, but I had to start ordering parts to make…

Event Report: Bayside Robotics’ First State Fights #2

This past weekend I attended Bayside Robotics’ second event, and it certainly proved to be an interesting day. 1lb – Someone Else’s Problem This was the event where Someone Else’s Problem finally came into its own. It originally started its life as a 3D printed design that was hardly able to stand up the the…

Introducing a new 12lb bot: Antisocial Distancing!

The time has come for me to step outside my comfort zone and push my boundaries again. Allow me to introduce my first hobbyweight robot (in progress) – Antisocial Distancing, now registered to debut at the November Norwalk Havoc event! This design is basically going to be a scaling up to take my undercutter design…

Spark! Kits Now Available For Sale!

I have now officially added the Spark! 150g robot kits to my shop! These kits have now gone undefeated to take first place in the first two competitions they have entered, and now you can own one too! The carbon fiber frame is tough, the titanium disk is destructive, and with only a few screws…

First event report in a year, and Someone Else’s Problem v4

July 17th saw me bring both Someone Else’s Problem and my new 150g Pocket Apocalypse out to Bayside Robotics’ innaugural First State Fight event. Since I have been refining these designs for a while and they have accumulated a few event wins (at least under another owner/driver), I was using this event as a final…

First Kit Pre-Orders Now Available!

I have changed my shop around a bit to focus on the kits of my undercutter designs, and I am now opening up sales on my Jolt! 3lb combat robot kits. These kits are the latest iteration of the design that I have been refining for the past few years in Portable Apocalypse. I have…

Robot Parts Shop Now Open!

I am pleased to announce that I am opening a little store to sell robot parts, AbsoluteChaosRobotics.bigcartel.com! Over the next few months I am going to start selling my competition winning undercutter designs in the 3lb, 1lb, and 150g weight classes. I will also be selling the great brushed ESCs and double geared 25mm motors…

New 3lb Bot – Apex Predator

Introduction It has now been a year since I last built a 3lb bot, so here we go again! Looking back on the history of the bots that I have built, it seems that once I find a new tool to add to my building arsenal I wind up getting inspired enough to use it…

2020: A Year in CAD

2020 has been a crappy year in most regards, and robot combat has been no exception. I managed to make it to Motorama in February with my beetleweight, but that was the only event I got to attend all year long. Just because I had no events to go to didn’t mean that my mind…

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