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Home page for BattleBots information and documentation

3lb Beginner's Guide

old 3lb links

• 3lbers
• 3lb Beginner's Guide
• Electronics Basics
• List of 3lb Robots
• Robot Basics

new 3lb links

• Intro to Battlebots
• 3lb Design Guide
  • weapon stuff
  • chassis stuff
  • vendor stuff
• 3lb Assembly and Troubleshooting
• List of 3lb Robots

Big Bots

• List of Big Bots
• List of Big Bots

• Big Bot design tips
  • component selection for big bots
    • common parts
    • advanced electronics
    • Vendors
  • basic mechanisms that differ from 3lb

Other Documentation

• Arena Documentation
• Materials Database
• 3D Printing for Battlebots
• Vendors

Resources

• Riobotz Combot Tutorial (400 page guide on how to build battlebots written by the pro-team that built Minotaur. A must read.)
• Shigley's Machine Design 9th Ed. (Machine design textbook on how to do mechanical engineering calculations on for different mechanical components)
• NHRL Wiki
• NHRL Discord Server