Not a huge amount has happened this week either. Last weekend was spent in the workshop working on a top secret project Big Dave 3 and I (Chris) have had loads on at work this week. That said…. there is evidence of parts of a featherweight starting to emerge from the machine shop. Of course…. […]
Read More →Tags: Shunt favouritism, stored kinetic carnage (and numbness), crossed wires, sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains excite me (so much I might catch fire)…
Read More →So, this 10 week build is getting rather close to the end and there’s not been a lot of progress this week. That said – we do have something to show (apologies for the rotation – I will fix this shortly!):
Read More →It’s been a while since I (Rob) posted – and as it’s Robot Wars application time, and that means making sure that Dave drives around and looks fast! We’ve got a lot more than these few clips, and we’ve even been practicing to the Robot Wars 3…2…1…Activate! Soon to come – weaponry! But for now, […]
Read More →Tags: Quota for quotes, someone please check what is Jonathan Pearce is on, and can I have some of it? Drone impressions, a career change for beekeepers, heel turns to anti-hero.
Read More →Warning: Non-technical people may want to look away now! It seems that brushless motor controllers are a dark art to many… unless you happen to be SimonK, or Ellis Ware – the man behind Pulsar. After having a bit of a run-in with the 120A HobbyKing X-Car Beast speed controllers we had (in that they […]
Read More →So, as we get to the end of the sixth week of building, suddenly it’s lots of steps forwards. Actually, more like revolutions forward (and backward). We’ve got a rolling chassis on the featherweight. I’ll let the video do the talking: We mounted that board on the top just to get things rolling. Sadly, we […]
Read More →Tags: So very numb from that last episode, flip count, new records, quotes from the roboteers and judges, Bigger Brother, trantums (and everyone will surely understand when I say “prams out of the toy”?)
Read More →Blimey – where’s the time gone. It doesn’t feel like it’s week 5, and I (Chris) certainly don’t have a lot to show for it other than a lot of (now useless) plastic that’s been 3D printed….. That’s right – we’re 3D printing a Featherweight….. Actually, the finished thing won’t be 3D printed, but we’re […]
Read More →While we put Ali back on the morphine drip after his stint on Stars in Their Eyes (see last podcast) we have done some research before our next build weekend to discover just how far some of the current crop of robots can trace their family tree…
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