Back before I even knew about the Kilobots event, I was building antweight robots. I met a guy by the name of David Eklund on the Delphi Antweight forum who lived pretty close to me. When we heard about the Kilobots event in March, we planned on entering both out ants as a multibot.

Unfortunatly, I couldn't make it to the event and the multibot was never built. Luckily another event was scheduled for August so we decided to go along with the project and Shwing&Shwang was born!

Shwang was my half of the multi bot. It was a slow, servo driven bot, with a big 10" plow on the front for atacking spinners.

Shwing was David's half. It was and extremely quick and maneuverable wedge, designed for maximum pushing power.

While S&S did compete at Kilobots that August, they didn't do so well. David had just finished Shwing before the event, and it wasnt getting any power when we put it into the arena. We we're up against Wedgie, a strong, fast wedge, first and Shwang basically had to fight alone. About 12 seconds into the match, S&S were both overtop of the wall. :P

The next match was against my other bot RinkRat. I decided to drive RinkRat since he was my main bot and handed Shwang's controller to one of David's friends. Shwing was working for this match but had no traction and could barely move. Combine this with an inexperienced driver and youve got a recipe for disaster. RinkRat flipped them both out without any problems and S&S was eliminated.

Sadly, both David and I wanted to build are own Kilobots so S&S was retired, but it was still alot of fun to compete with it.