Nightmare- San Francisco 2000

Nightmare - BattleBots Season 3.0, San Francisco, CA

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There were quite a few upgrades to Nightmare for Season 3.0. I finally ditched my old weapon motor in favor of the newly-released 4" Magmotor, available over at RobotBooks.com.

Nightmare's frame had also been taking a beating from previous events, and it was time for a new one. And, since I had to do that, I had to completely re-wire and re-mount everything from scratch. I swapped out his drive batteries for NiMh ones too, and bought a stack of Astroflight 112D chargers to go along with it.

Nobody said this stuff was easy (or cheap!)

The quest to save weight on Nightmare has always been a tough one.

When I decided to rebuild his frame from scratch, I decided that this version needed to be lighter, so I enlisted my great friend Dan Cherney to put his CNC Milling experience to the test.

The result is what you see here, two beautifully machined beams, cut down from the 1/2" thick L-Beams, including machined interior weight-saving cutouts, as well as a perfect set of circular cutouts for the motors to sit in (this version of Nightmare was originally planned to put two 4" Magmotors to work, but I ended up not being able to save quite enough weight for the second motor)

The motors were to rest in this center channel. This is after I had already installed the cross-beams that keep the two sides of Nightmare together.

Okay, so I'm a complete flake. I was so rushed in getting this version of Nightmare out the door (the above pics were taken 2 weeks before the event), that I didn't even bother to pick up my camera the rest of the construction process.

Sorry!

Special thanks to my very good friend Dan Cherney for his wonderful machining on Nightmare!

Back	How He Did	Video
Construction
There were quite a few upgrades to Nightmare for Season 3.0. I finally ditched my old weapon motor in favor of the newly-released 4" Magmotor, available over at RobotBooks.com. Nightmare's frame had also been taking a beating from previous events, and it was time for a new one. And, since I had to do that, I had to completely re-wire and re-mount everything from scratch. I swapped out his drive batteries for NiMh ones too, and bought a stack of Astroflight 112D chargers to go along with it. Nobody said this stuff was easy (or cheap!)
The quest to save weight on Nightmare has always been a tough one. When I decided to rebuild his frame from scratch, I decided that this version needed to be lighter, so I enlisted my great friend Dan Cherney to put his CNC Milling experience to the test. The result is what you see here, two beautifully machined beams, cut down from the 1/2" thick L-Beams, including machined interior weight-saving cutouts, as well as a perfect set of circular cutouts for the motors to sit in (this version of Nightmare was originally planned to put two 4" Magmotors to work, but I ended up not being able to save quite enough weight for the second motor)
The motors were to rest in this center channel. This is after I had already installed the cross-beams that keep the two sides of Nightmare together.
Okay, so I'm a complete flake. I was so rushed in getting this version of Nightmare out the door (the above pics were taken 2 weeks before the event), that I didn't even bother to pick up my camera the rest of the construction process. Sorry!