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A number of tools have been created for robot combat builders to be able to plan for and build effective bot weapons and drivetrains. Here are some community favorites:

Design Suite

Full combat robot design suite includes Drivetrains, Weapons, Center Distance, LiPo watt-hour equivalency at different voltage, even USA national tournament strategy. Built-in stats for common high-performance insectweight motors.

ember Robot Calculator Suite - Level 5 Robotics.

Mechanical

Handy for drivetrains.

Belt Length Calculator - B&B Manufacturing

Belt Center Distance Calculator - Jeremy Germita

Chain Center Distance Calculator - Jeremy Germita

Magnet Pull Force Calculator - Calculate pull force based on distance, size, and grade. By K&J Magnetics.

Toothed Belt Calculator - Palm Beach Bots

Motors

Electric Motor Math - Understanding the specs for PMDC (brushed) motors. By Team RoboForge, presented by Run Amok.

Also see Deriving Motor Constants for surplus PMDC motors.

Motor Speed and Pushing Power - Choose brushed or brushless motors. By Jeremy Germita

ESC Configurator for programming (reflashing) ESCs online (Chrome/Chromium-type browser expected).

Using CRSF and ELRS in Combat Robotics - get started with CRSF and update your ESCs from pulses to packets.

Weapons

Use these to find out not only how hard a spinning weapon will hit, but also whether it is compliant with maximum energy rules for the events you compete in.

Spinner Weapon Kinetic Energy Calculator - SpinCalc by Run Amok. Read the help file! Mass, MOI, spin-up estimation, etc.

Tip Speed Calculator - Jeremy Germita

Tip Speed and KE (Kinetic Energy) Calculator - Bristol Bot Builders

Weapon Speed Calculator - Palm Beach Bots

Control

Mixer Fixer for correcting problems with channel mixing on your transmitter. By Run Amok.

for Event Organizers

Here are places to post Events. Remember to coordinate with other Local Groups so that competitors don't have to choose between different events on the same day within a reasonable travel distance.

Ember Tournament Calculator by Level 5 - Estimates run time and fight count for a double-elimination bracket; shows Robot Combat League point schedule, including estimates for events already posted on RobotCombatEvents website.

Challonge.com - Well established web-based tool for competitive events and tournament brackets. Integrated ticketing and payment via Stripe. Numerous features, free version heavily ad supported. RobotCombatEvents.com has Challonge integration to feed event results to USA national rankings.

TrueFinals.com - New site in beta for tournament brackets. Stats and dashboards, competitor list with next opponent listed, integrated check-in and call up, video overlays for match recording/streaming, all also web-based. Well-documented API and small robot combat community creating deep integration.

Rampage is a tournament bracket/management site for UK matches, featuring Bugglebots and similar match formats, streaming features and API support.

BigTimer.net - Large-display, ad supported, touch-enabled timer.

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 A number of tools have been created for robot combat builders to be able to plan for and build effective bot weapons and drivetrains. Here are some community favorites:
+==Design Suite==
+Full combat robot design suite includes Drivetrains, Weapons, Center Distance, LiPo watt-hour equivalency at different voltage, even USA national tournament strategy. Built-in stats for common high-performance insectweight motors.
+'''[https://ember.level5robotics.com/ ember Robot Calculator Suite]''' - Level 5 Robotics.
 ==Mechanical==
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 '''[https://www.kjmagnetics.com/calculator.asp Magnet Pull Force Calculator]''' - Calculate pull force based on distance, size, and grade. By K&J Magnetics.
+'''[https://palmbeachbots.com/pages/belt-pulley-calculator Toothed Belt Calculator]''' - Palm Beach Bots
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 '''[https://bristolbotbuilders.com/tools/tipspeed/ Tip Speed and KE (Kinetic Energy) Calculator]''' - Bristol Bot Builders
+'''[https://palmbeachbots.com/pages/weapon-speed-calculator Weapon Speed Calculator]''' - Palm Beach Bots
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 ==for Event Organizers==
-Places to post '''[[Events]]'''.
+Here are places to post '''[[Events]]'''.  Remember to coordinate with other '''[[Local Groups]]''' so that competitors don't have to choose between different events on the same day within a reasonable travel distance.
+'''[https://ember.level5robotics.com/tournament Ember Tournament Calculator]''' by Level 5 - Estimates run time and fight count for a double-elimination bracket; shows [[Robot Combat League]] point schedule, including estimates for events already posted on '''[https://www.robotcombatevents.com RobotCombatEvents]''' website.
 '''[https://challonge.com/ Challonge.com]''' - Well established web-based tool for competitive events and tournament brackets. Integrated ticketing and payment via Stripe. Numerous '''[https://challonge.com/features/tournaments features]''', free version heavily ad supported. RobotCombatEvents.com has Challonge integration to feed event results to USA national rankings.