Robot, now with armour

Following on from the explosive adventures of The Rock and A Hard Plaice I have designed a sturdier successor, with an active weapon.

In an unprecedented move I have planned everything out, to ensure that all components fit. The easiest/coolest way to do this was in Inventor - which means that even though the design is at an early stage, I have pictures! (I also used the design process to experiment with parametric/variable driven CAD)

Always have to have as many colours as possible - (`\'-'/` - how else are you going to tell components apart?)

Major improvements include:

1. Armour, and not made of just paper
2. Guaranteed room for all components!
3. Exact wheel diameter tolerances
4. The aforementioned weapon, hopefully this will not end with the robot tearing itself apart!

The weapon is planned to be a vertical bar spinner, acting in a similar fashion to a flipper. Through previous robot iterations (the venerable Big Wheels series and the more recent The Rock and A Hard Plaice) my fellow teammates and I have become adept at being able to have a very low front scoop, generally well below most of our competitors. Therefore hopefully what will happen is that this robot will ram its opponent, forcing the opponent up the front ramp and into the spinning blade. As the opposing robot will already have been scooped from the floor of the arena when it is hit by the bar it should recoil further (and fly further), while the forces through this robot will be more vertical, preventing it from also recoiling too far.

The name is still undecided for the moment, ideas include Gigaton Handshake, Coincidental Survivors or Bizarrely, Trifle.