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Mastercam Celebrates BattleBot Team Witch Doctor’s Success
November 12, 2019 (Tolland, Conn.) – Mastercam, CAD/CAM software developed by CNC Software, Inc., was proud to be on display as a sponsorship partner of Team Witch Doctor in season 9 of Discovery’s BattleBots series. Team Witch Doctor, led by Andrea Gellatly, competes in the BattleBots competition on the Discovery Channel. The collaboration was a great benefit to company culture and provided a strong platform from which to promote the benefits of STEM education.
Members of Team Witch Doctor and Mastercam employees at CNC Software headquarters. (Provided by CNC Software)
Gellatly leads a team including her husband Mike Gellatly, Paul Grata, Christian Chiriboga, Steven Sharp, Katheryn Sharp, Jennifer Villa, and Rick Pease. They actively promote robotics and educational efforts to get youth more involved in STEM. They also started a nonprofit makerspace in Miami, Florida, for new robot builders and makers of all kinds called MakeMIA Makerspace.
According to Peter Mancini, Education Product Manager for Mastercam, “Our partnership with Team Witch Doctor has given us extra visibility to promote the benefits of STEM education and careers in manufacturing to students. BattleBots is a very popular show, and Witch Doctor was so successful. They’re a crowd favorite, for sure. Fans can see how robotics was a great launch pad for Andrea and her teammates, so when young people see this they are inspired.”
Throughout the season, Witch Doctor provided a spectacle with an undefeated streak going into the finals, where the robot ultimately finished in second place after a harrowing match with Bite Force. During battles in the competition, robots are often damaged extensively, and Witch Doctor had the ability to repair rapidly in part due to the availability of replacement parts from the Mastercam Manufacturing Lab®.
Several members of Team Witch Doctor visited CNC Software headquarters in Tolland, Connecticut, to speak at a company meeting and take time to interact with CNC Software employees. Employees enjoyed a demonstration of the robot’s speed and dexterity. During the visit, Team Witch Doctor shared their appreciation for everyone’s support and took time with applications engineers in the Mastercam Manufacturing Lab to talk shop and thank the group for help with the design and manufacture of part of the fuel system.
President and CEO of Mastercam, Meghan West shared, “It has been so exciting for our company to come together and root for Team Witch Doctor. We organized viewing sessions and live chats with the team, and we are very proud of their accomplishments this season.”
West added, “We really couldn’t ask for a group better aligned with Mastercam’s efforts to attract young energetic minds to our industry. The fact that it’s a woman-led team adds icing to the cake. Women are underrepresented in these fields, and Team Witch Doctor is a fantastic example of what is possible for anyone with an interest in STEM and manufacturing.”
HUGE vs. Witch Doctor - WCVII Fight #7 - Top 8!
Check out this fight in BattleBots World Championship VII (marked “Season 8” on most platforms), Episode 19.
When we last left off, HUGE was coming off of a razor-thin Round-of-16 victory over MadCatter. With the help of the irreplaceable Martin Mason, we had totally overhauled the weapon bearings halfway through the playoffs, taking a risk to swap out what we had been using, and pursue a more reliable approach for the remaining fights. In summary, here is how we described that process in our MadCatter blog post:
“…but we learned that the “High-Load” style (chosen newly for 2022) are particularly prone to this style of galling when they fail. While the normal-style Oilite bushing is less hard and less robust, it can ultimately survive damage without galling the axle and locking up. Whenever possible, we want to choose parts that will fail without causing an entire system failure, so we knew that the change must be made for future fight(s) against similar vertical spinners. From here on out, this will be an every-fight consumable, but hopefully something that won’t stop the blade turning!”
“While the normal-style Oilite bushing is less hard and less robust, it can ultimately survive damage without galling the axle and locking up.”
So what the heck happened? The key, is to start at the beginning.
Witch Doctor is a legendary opponent, having competed in every prior season of Battlebots. They’ve been to the Round of 8 four times, overall Runner-Up twice, 2021 Golden Bolt Runner-Up, won two Bounty tournaments, won Re:Mars 2019, and in general cemented their place as one of the faces of the modern era of Battlebots. All of this adds up to the fact that the frame and construction of Witch Doctor is well-dialed, and much more solid than most robots that we have fought with the brushless iteration of HUGE (2020 and onwards). Witch Doctor was one of the most solid objects that HUGE had ever struck, and this shock causes damage inside of robots.
Also in the spirit of “starting at the beginning”, HUGE was at-this-point on its seventh fight of the season. In previous seasons, HUGE had fought in five (2018) or six (2019, 2020, 2021) total fights per season. Unlike many teams, we do not keep more than one fully-assembled HUGE in our pit. While we bring plenty of spares, all efforts go into preparing the main robot for each fight, and we feel that it’s better for keeping the focus on fielding the best possible robot. So to have a fight against such a sturdy opponent, along with being so late in the season, meant that HUGE’s internals were susceptible to the shock damage.
During the fight, we expected that the bushing had failed once again, and began spinning HUGE’s weapon slightly slower to try to prevent further damage. Given that prior damage was caused by overheating, slower = cooler, right? Surprisingly enough, the bushing had no issues, ending the fight a little loose but otherwise clean, smooth, and free of galling! So what caused the issues then?
HUGE’s weapon motors, stressed by all of these big hits (as well as the hits from every prior fight since the beginning of the season) decided that this very important moment was the right time to fail in a new way, bend their axles internally, and therefore eat many of the magnets inside. This happened to multiple motors at once. SO, rather than freeing up a stuck bushing, our aggressive thwacking was actually moving chunks of magnets out of the way, and into gaps in the motor, thereby allowing HUGE to spin back up again and go for more hits. Bench testing confirmed that these motors would spin freely before intermittently locking, and damage to the internals supports the idea that some of these magnet chunks were impacting things at speed. Moments like these are why it’s so important to have speed controllers that can deal with a situation where the blade is suddenly locked up, and can continue onward without exploding into a fireball.
For fighting Witch Doctor, we had decided on a strategy of trying to disable Witch Doctor’s weapon as fast as possible. With their experience, we expected that they would be able to adapt strategies quickly, and that we may not get many chances to hit critical parts more than once. Because of this, we ran with our longest “S-blade”, to focus on aggressive and highly-damaging hits. We owe our success to the S-blade, as we were able to build enough of a lead during the early portions of the fight that we could survive once we took the weapon system damage. Witch Doctor’s weapon was disabled in a single hit near the weapon area, and they were left on the defensive for the rest of the match. Being on the offensive and controlling the fight is the position you want to be fighting from!
Moving forwards, we were left preparing for extremely uncharted territory: the prospect of fighting twice in a single day. In the real world, the Battlebots Semi-Finals take place in the morning of the second-to-last day, and the Finals themselves take place later in the evening that same day. It’s important to never overlook an opponent, and take every fight one at a time, but we knew that we would be best served to take a few small steps to help prepare for the possible day ahead in the event that we made it to the finals.
With no time available to re-engineer HUGE at this point, we swapped in a set of all-new weapon motors for the final day. We also began to prepare some spare motors, in-case the failures came back again. Otherwise, we charged two full sets of batteries to be ready for a quick turnaround between matches, prepared a full second blade hub (to enable a quick swap), did regular maintenance (like replacing the bushings), and got to work developing a strategy for Copperhead.
Battlebots Season 6
BattleBots season 6 is already over. This season was very exciting, full of great fights and controversy as well. Who is the winner? What happened between Minotaur and Witch Doctor? How did our sponsored teams end up? Let's find out!
BattleBots is a show full of adaptability and engineering talents. Engineers show their design prowess and creativity. This year’s season is finally over, featuring more than 60 teams battling to earn a spot in the top 32. MGM CONTROLLERS cooperated with two teams, which ended up in the top 16. Which teams did we support, and who was the winner? Let’s find out.
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How was the 6 th Season?
This season was very exciting, full of exciting moments and great fights as the field of robotics continues to evolve. This not only means that the robots keep getting better, but also the level of competition keeps getting intense. Teams are made up of robot enthusiasts who design, build, and test their robots, yet they all have knowledge in product design, engineering, software, and electronics.
Nowadays, BattleBots have thousands of passionate fans who tend to disagree with the judges. The same moments were in this 6 th Season, too, because controversy took place in most fights. Some fights showed loopholes in the rules, so BattleBots committed to making a few updates with regulations and guidelines for the next season, which may occur sooner than last.
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Reviews for "Pyrokinesis Unleashed: Harnessing the Baddest Magic Element for Maximum Impact"
1. Sarah - 2 stars
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3. Emily - 2 stars
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