This Beyblade battlebot is sort of a whirling dervish of destruction

Battlebots are fascinating, as a result of their builders at all times handle to give you distinctive new methods of destroying opponents whereas avoiding harm on the identical time. Like every good sport, it includes metagaming to develop a technique primarily based on anticipated opponent methods. Ari’s technique was to make his fight robotic spin at insane speeds and that requires some fairly cautious engineering.

Ari’s contender is just like the robotic equal of a Beyblade. It’s round and spins actually, actually quick. One protrusion catches on opponent bots and transfers all of that kinetic vitality from spinning into an extremely highly effective punch. However physics being what it’s, Ari’s Beyblade bot additionally experiences that very same impression. So, Ari needed to design the bot’s physique to carry as much as the forces and the electronics wanted to face up to the impacts, too.

The robotic solely weighs one pound and that features the battery and motors, so Ari needed to hold the management electronics gentle. The first element is an Arduino Nano ESP32 board, which connects to the opposite elements by way of a customized PCB. The opposite elements LEDs, brushless DC motors, and the digital velocity controllers (ESCs) that drive the motors at such ludicrous speeds. 

This labored very effectively and Ari’s bot tore by way of the competitors like an out-of-control buzzsaw by way of frightened butter. Ari did lose the ultimate bout, however that was on one thing of a technicality as a free connection interfered together with his skill to regulate the bot. Even so, we’re calling the design and technique a hit.