Jamison Go

“The potato sack race of combat robotics”

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• Builders: Aaron Fan and Jamison Go
• Materials: aluminum, TPU, steel

HAMshake is a continuation of the HAM line of robots. In short, a long line of wacky, fun, and unpredictable collaborative entries that stray from the meta. See the short below for the brief on the robot!

HAMshake moves by combining gyroscopic procession and angular inertia tricks. The robot can be rotated left and right by accelerating or deaccelerating the weapon disks. By pitching the disks a few degrees relative to the floor, we incur lift on the chassis via gyroscopic procession of non accelerating blade. We coordinate the acceleration and braking on each half to move around the arena while maintaining the blades at deadly speeds!

Brief summary on HAM: Each half is designed independently and virtually in a vacuum; we agree only on the attachment features and how the robot will generally operate. To make things even harder (more fun), both builders partake in the control of the robot but in an non-intuitive manner; some teams split drivetrain and weapon function in to two different operators but on HAM robots each operator is responsible for all functions!

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