Our Interview with Dragon Slayer builders Dylan Halsey, Jordan Neal and Justin Kizer

<p>This week on the podcast, we’re going medieval with Dragon Slayer builders Dylan Halsey and Jordan Neal. Last year, Dylan and Jordan worked together to build Piranha, a heavyweight combat robot that was ultimately not selected to compete in the 2020 season of BattleBots. This year, they gutted the components from Piranha and reapplied with a vertical spinner called Dragon Slayer.</p> <p> </p> <p>Dragon Slayer is the team’s first combat robot, and we learn what it was like competing on the world’s biggest combat robotics stage as true rookies.</p> <p> </p> <p>This week’s combat robotics news:</p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">BattleBots opens official store on Amazon: <a href='https://www.facebook.com/battlebots/posts/10158152541841406'>https://www.facebook.com/battlebots/posts/10158152541841406</a> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Lisa Winter’s NFTs: <a href='https://www.facebook.com/groups/56319454480/posts/10159474765234481/'>https://www.facebook.com/groups/56319454480/posts/10159474765234481/</a> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Gigabyte promotes Robots on Ice: <a href='https://www.robotsonice.org/'>https://www.robotsonice.org/</a> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Glitch’s LED light show: <a href='https://www.facebook.com/glitchbattlebot/posts/127624662970322'>https://www.facebook.com/glitchbattlebot/posts/127624662970322</a> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Perfect Phoenix captain Tyler Nguyen competing at Norwalk next month: <a href='https://www.facebook.com/TylerNguyen09/posts/2721953824771888'>https://www.facebook.com/TylerNguyen09/posts/2721953824771888</a> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Robot Ruckus fundraiser tickets on sale now: <a href='https://www.eventbrite.com/e/robot-ruckus-2021-vip-fundraiser-tickets-164662858041'>https://www.eventbrite.com/e/robot-ruckus-2021-vip-fundraiser-tickets-164662858041</a> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Skorpios brought 3 fully functioning robots to BattleBots: <a href='https://www.facebook.com/SkorpiosBattleBot/posts/266687018800594'>ht