Many roboteers have used this time to go into their workshop and get on top of their projects… and we are also in the mood! The team may be split in three places but we have our respective tools and bots. Ali (the driver of BD3, as you probably know by now) has spent the […]

Hi everyone! It’s been a while hasn’t it?? We’ve been fairly quiet recently (except for our social media pages). Unfortunately Rob moving to the US has dented our plans to do much more for the last 6 months of 2019, although we did successfully run another AWS competition in the Midlands. This year though, we […]

Note: Ali (the driver of Big Dave 3) is an archaeological geophysicist by day. Roboteer by night. World’s first archaeological roboteer? An email appeared in my inbox one day, which looked suspiciously like a spam email – it was in somewhat broken English, inviting me to contribute to a strange service and a financial reward […]

G’day! Following on from my antweight design philosophy of having the most unusual bot in the arena and having screwed the chassis together, today I will go over my electrics. The first thing was sourcing the right components. Thankfully I have a Chris to rely on for advice. This included everything except for the wiring […]

So now the design philosophy is sorted, I have now acquired some HDPE from a sustainable/ recycled source and can start cutting it to shape. After much whittling over what tools to use, knives turned out to be slow and occaisionally painful. Power tools are much better but obviously I have to be careful how […]

On the 9th April 2019, the roboteering community in the UK learned of the sad news the Rex Garrod, one of the founding fathers of robot combat in the UK, had passed away the day before at the age of 75 in Suffolk. He had kept a low profile in the last few years of […]