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Engineering08/10/26
BILLET S7 ROTOR // 42 kJ

A Week in the Machine Shop: Kinetic Energy Upgrades for MK-IV

Our team re-machined the central vertical drum weapon from billet S7 shock-resisting tool steel, achieving a 15% increase in rotational moment of inertia while maintaining gyroscopic balance under sudden deceleration.

6 MIN READ // BILLET S7EXPLORE BRIEF →
Competition24/09/26
KNOCKOUT VECTOR 0:48

National Robowars Championship: The 48-Second Knockout

A technical telemetry breakdown of the Grand Finals bout against heavyweight horizontal spinner Valravn in Bengaluru, dissecting the first-hit wedge deflection that inverted the opponent over the boundary fence.

4 MIN READ // GRAND FINALSREAD LOG →
MANIFESTO // PRINCIPLE
“We view destructive loads and arena limits not as points of failure, but as blueprints for ruthless, elegant engineering.”
Black Diamond Design Principle // Powai 2026
Thoughts10/09/26
GaN 400A / 48V INVERTER

Custom Brushless Inverter Design: Delivering 400A Surge at 48V

Why commercial electronic speed controllers fail under sudden vertical drum weapon stalls, and how our custom gallium-nitride MOSFET gate driver architecture solved thermal runaway in the arena.

5 MIN READ // POWER ELECTRONICSREAD LOG →
Design & FEA27/08/26
1.2mm SCRAPER CLEARANCE

Arena Floor Ground Clearance: The 1.2mm Titanium Scraper Wedge

Balancing scraping leverage against arena steel plate seams. How precision laser-cut Grade 5 titanium wedges won the ground clearance battle across Mumbai and Delhi battlegrounds.

4 MIN READ // WEDGE GEOMETRYREAD LOG →
Field Logs13/08/26
HARDOX 500 // BRINELL 500 HBW

CPD: Specifying Hardox 500 Wear Plates

Hardox 500 maintains impact toughness and abrasion resistance under repetitive weapon strikes without brittle fracturing.

3 MIN READREAD →
Engineering29/07/26
6,500 RPM SPINDOWN

Powai Testing Bench: Spindown Telemetry

Analyzing 6,500 RPM spindown friction curves inside our reinforced ballistic testing chamber at IIT Bombay.

3 MIN READREAD →
Field Logs15/07/26
12S 6000mAh QUICK-RAIL

West Zone Arena Logs: Rapid 20-Minute Battery Swaps

How modular quick-disconnect lithium-polymer rails saved our semi-final bracket run under strict referee countdown timers at the Western India Combat Cup.

4 MIN READ // PIT CREW LOGSREAD LOG →

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