Month: January 2017
A brief history of Battlebots and Robot Wars
Uh oh. The driver’s only gone and found some audio recording software! Here’s some work we’ve extracted from Ali summarising some of the main differences between Battlebots and Robot Wars before he started speaking so fast he broke the sound barrier. Before you know it Ali will have discovered some of the internet’s other joys… […]
Read More →January Update 1
With any luck, we’ll be competing in Robot Wars this year! Merry everything, happy etc. Now – onto the update. We spent the weekend of Jan 7/8 putting some more bits on Big Dave and breaking a few more. Whilst we didn’t make the progress that we thought we were going to make, we made […]
Read More →Look after your batteries!!!!
First up, a quick disclaimer: Building and battling fighting robots is dangerous and should not be attempted without great care! But hopefully you knew that anyway. Lithium Polymer batteries are where it’s at now, and while they’re relatively tough…. they’re not combat robot tough…. far from it. Lithium Polymer Batteries have a very, very peculiar discharge […]
Read More →Ignore everything I said about bearings!
Let’s, once again, talk about bearings. First things – ignore this! It’s now outdated and kinda wrong… Secondly, Happy 2017! This will be the year that we get on Robot Wars, hopefully! Those bearings, whilst still cool, won’t sustain any sort of impact for any sort of time. Instead, we’re going for Taper Roller Bearings, normally […]
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