Maker Faire Bay Area 2008
RoboGames Presents: The ComBot Cup

Robo Games , Saturday 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Heavyweight
Robo Games , Saturday 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Middleweight & Lightweight
Robo Games , Saturday 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Heavyweight
Robo Games , Saturday 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Lightweight
Robo Games , Saturday 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Lightweight, Flyweight, Heavyweight
Robo Games , Sunday 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Heavyweight
Robo Games , Sunday 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Mediumweight & Lightweight
Robo Games , Sunday 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Heavyweight
Robo Games , Sunday 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Lightweight
Robo Games , Sunday 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Lightweight, Flyweight & Heavyweight

Location:   Robo Games   

Robots range from 60 pounds all the way up to 340 pounds, and the action will blow you away. Regular people make these robots, they're not from companies. You could make one too! Both the ComBots Cup and Android fights are in prerp for RoboGames -- the world's largest robot competition -- June 13-15th in San Francisco.

Web site: http://robogames.net/

Project photo.

Topic(s): Engineering

Tags: Robot Engineering

About the Maker(s)

David Calkins

Simone Davalos
She does all the things. Builds bars, creates counter cultures, feeds your dogs, holds the fort, crashes the gate, gets the permits, takes the cash, and never even asks for a thank you. -from tribe.net
http://powertooldragraces.com/

Here are this year's competitors:

Combat robot "Beer Bash" Avish Bharwani , Bruce White , Joshua Mehlman , Rebecca Sutton , Susan Reno
Beer Bash is a combat robot made from a beer keg supplied by Lagunitas Brewing Company. His motto is "Drink Then Fight." Beer Bash's keggeyness has allowed him to achieve many victories in coolness, though few in reality.

Combat robot "CycloneBot" Eliot Barker , Gary Mathiesen , Jeff Hayashida , Mark Demers , Michael Worry , Mohan Gurunathan , Robert Frankovich , Tim Bayne

Combat robot "Plasma" Stephen Felk

Combat robot "SJ" Ken Stevens , Richard Van Noy , Robert Stellhorn , Scott Kincaid
Presented by Team Blackroot, SJ is a high ranking contender in the 220 pound combat robot class. He is the 2004 national champion! SJ is also one of the oldest active robots. This is the "11th" version in six years.

Combat robot "Vlad The Impaler II" David Calkins , Simone Davalos

Combat robots "Last Rites" and "The Mortician" David Gustavson , Justin Billings , Laurie Stratton , Ray Billings
Team Hardcore's specialty is combat robots with very high kinetic energy spinning weapons. Our two entries are The Mortician, which is a 120 pound Middleweight, and Last Rites, which is a 220 pound Heavyweight.

Combat robots "Pipe Wench" and "Sewer Snake" Matt Maxham , Wendy Maxham
Sewer Snake is the #1 ranked Heavyweight robot of all time (32 wins, 7 losses). It is the reigning ComBots Cup champion, and the RoboGames international champion.

Combat robots "The Big B" and "Original Sin" Christina Gin , Dave Needle , Gary Gin , Stan Shepard

Combat robots "The Bully" and "Come to Mama" Buffy Yeh , Forrest Yeh , Jim Yeh Diane Parton , Sierra Yeh

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