Woodpecker

Robot Facts

Woodpecker v1 (march, june 2023)

Builder	Dan Dischino
Driver	Dan Dischino
Weight Class	3lb
Body Material	HDPE/TPU
Weapon	A screw
Weapon Drive	hennkwell actuator motor, rectified brushed drill
Drive	rectified brushless
Power	4s 350 lmao

Woodpecker is a drill bot. It uses a self tapping screw to drill into its opponents. At least, it will. Some day

Statistics

Info

• Rank: #564 in 3lb.
• Last 5 fights: LLWL
• Current streak: L1 (1 KOs/KO'd)
• Longest winning streak: 1 (0 KOs)
• Longest losing streak: 2 (1 KO'd)
• Avg fight time (seconds): 48.5

Record

Year	Events	Fights	W	L	%	KOs	KO'd
2018-19
2020
2021
2022
2023	1	1	0	1	0.000	0	1
2024	1	3	1	2	0.333	0	1
All-Time	2	4	1	3	0.250	0	2

Events

Date	Fought as	Reached	Place	Fights	W	L	KOs	KO'd
June 24, 2023	Woodpecker	Round 1		1	0	1	0	1
April 20, 2024	Woodpecker	Qualifiers Rd. 3		3	1	2	0	1

Opponents

Opponent	Fights	W	L	KOs	KO'd	Last Meeting
Defcon	1	1	0	1	0	April 20, 2024
New York Slice	1	0	1	0	1	June 24, 2023
IDKWTFID	1	0	1	0	1	April 20, 2024
Gh-ASTLEY	1	0	1	0	0	April 20, 2024

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Full Fight History

Date	Opponent	Round	Result	By	Points	Fight Length (s)	Video
March 18, 2023	MERP!	Round 2	Loss	Forfeit	-1.00
March 18, 2023	Free Trial	Rival	Win	Forfeit	0.00
June 24, 2023	Big AI	Rival	Win	Forfeit	0.00	0
June 24, 2023	New York Slice	Round 1	Loss	KO	-1.00	97	https://www.youtube.com/live/vmbdOf7MSDs?feature=share&t=16428
April 20, 2024	Gh-ASTLEY	Qualifiers Rd. 1	Loss	Forfeit	-1.09
April 20, 2024	Defcon	Qualifiers Rd. 2	Win	Forfeit	1.00
April 20, 2024	IDKWTFID	Qualifiers Rd. 3	Loss	KO	-1.00		https://brettzone.nhrl.io/brettZone/fightReview.php?gameID=EX-df83e293f4f64849&tournamentID=nhrl_apr24_3lb

* Forfeits before the 2024 season are not counted in a bot's W-L record. Forfeits from 2024 and on are counted in a bot's W-L record.

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Woodpecker Build Log

March 2023

The bot wasn't ready in time, and had to forfeit its fights in the bracket. Unfortunately, my opponent Free Trial had to forfeit as well so I was advanced to the bracket with a win via forfeit, where I promptly lost by forfeit. Our team has struggled with getting our bots ready in time for competition and ended up grinding out the last week or two beforehand to do way too much work without time to properly fix issues. We've got a new rule going that you can't register your bot unless it has passed our in house safety checklist first, which is going to alleviate issues like this at least somewhat.

May 2023

Turns out its important for control bots to have a good drive system. Who knew!

I found two main issues in the drive in this one. First one, forgot to add motor plates on there, so driving in any meaningful capacity wrenched the motor out of the socket it was meant to sit in and the wire scrunched up against the motor and it couldn't spin. The second issue that came up even during testing was that the belts are imprecisely tensioned and overlap and rub against each other which makes the drive very inconsistent. The answer to this, I think, is to make sure the pulleys on both the wheel and motor side are fully constrained when assembling, so that I can make sure I reliably put the thing together and have the belt tension just work properly every time. I'm pretty sure I'm going to run into durability issues since my drive pods are pretty poorly protected, and that's even before I learn why no one else does a drill weapon, but drive is the most important thing for a bot like this.

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