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Gobstoppers12 posted...

It's a tragedy, because Hydra itself is such an awesome robot, and the flipper system is pretty unique in terms of speed and versatility. But hell, Blip's mechanism uses a new technique, too, and it seems to be nearly as powerful as Hydra but even faster.

its hydraulic system is a really cool innovation imo. most of the flippers that came before were pneumatic, and so they had a limited number of flips before they ran out of compressed air, and also with every flip they did, the force would go down a little bit for the next one. with hydraulics, you don't have to worry about any of that. it's pretty awesome tbh. i really wish a non shitheel came up with it.

i really like Blip. i haven't looked in to how its systems work, but in design and performance, it is very reminiscent of Apollo from Robot Wars, which is my whole family's favorite bot from Robot Wars. my dad said going into this season that he would love to see Apollo compete on Battlebots. Blip might be the closest that will get to happen. just a shame there are no 500 pound house robots for it to flip over lol.