Somehow the interest in robotic death-dealing fighting machines (which used to be quite high I have the toys to prove it) has died out. Sadly, BattleBots is not what it once was. “Also,” he says, “the hotel shenanigans get pretty interesting when my buddies come along to the competition.”
However, even though prize payouts are “lucky to be in the thousand dollar range,” Clint still feels that battling bots is worth it – not only for the adrenaline rush it provides, but because it allows him the opportunity to hang out and create with his best friends. Materials are easy to come by as Clint’s dad owns a machine shop, but bots can still cost anywhere from $500 to $40,000 to construct. In Clint’s words, that translates to “basically every weekend for a couple months with several people helping.” Clint has built or helped build somewhere between 30 and 40 robots of varying designs, a process which can take one to 500 hours. With this bot (which you can see on YouTube in all its whirling glory) the Ewert family brought home the Spring 2001 BattleBots Heavyweight World Championship, and proceeded to become, according to Clint, “the most feared and well respected robot team in the world.”įrom there, Clint hasn’t let up, winning an impressive list of titles with the most recent addition being his conquest of the BattleBots Collegiate Championship middleweight division just last year. You might hit SoW, sure, but you’re getting hurt in the process. Add a blade to each arm and you’ve got not only an offensive weapon, but an effective rotating shield against most other robot attacks. This efficiency stemmed from the make-up of SoW’s weapon, a spinning apparatus with three arms that extend from the top of the bot down towards the ground. What Clint and his dad built was the “Son of Whyachi,” a machine with a fairly simple but brutally efficient design. The rules are fairly simple: the last bot moving wins.Ĭlint’s family got started “in 2001 when we were watching it on TV, and my dad, being the competitive mechanical genius that he is, decided that he could build something that would revolutionize the BattleBots world,” according to Clint.
BATTLEBIT GUNS FULL
For the uninitiated, BattleBots is a competition in which two teams build a robot, equip it with some form of lethal weapon, and then let those robots loose in the “battle box,” which is essentially a 30-foot-by-30-foot arena – sometimes full of rotating saws and pneumatic hammers – to beat the mechanical snot out of one another. So you can imagine my glee when I heard about Clint Ewert, a Stout engineering, technology, and mechanical design major who has more BattleBots titles and trophies than I have fingers. The only thing better than robots? Fighting robots. I love robots of all shapes, sizes, makes, and models, ranging from the monstrous MechaGodzilla right down to the nebulous nanite. Like most of us with a Y chromosome, I possess an inherent fondness for robots. Stout engineering student Clint Ewert is builds champion BattleBots.
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