Today Ali went to the first ever Robodojo, hosted by KB Technologies in their workshop near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. It was billed as a place for roboteers to meet, socialise and fight bots! Starting at 10 (Ali arrived late due to the Kirkstall Festival in Leeds and housewarming party in York the night before), there […]
Read More →AWS 55 has been and gone. What happened*? We used ARC’s (read Chris’s) brand new Antweight arena and it worked! OK, the floor wasn’t perfect and the software threw a hiccup a couple of times, but other than that the actual event seemed to largely go off without a hitch. It handled 6 1/2 hours […]
Read More →So, it’s the night before Antweight World Series 55. What is this, I hear you cry? And how come the other 54 iterations of said institution haven’t lit up the world yet? And how are going to remedy this situation? Antweight World Series is also known as AWS. As you can probably guess, there have been […]
Read More →We managed a cheeky day in the workshop over the bank holiday. It can be summed up in one sentence; we have an antweight arena (well almost)! Chris has been hard at work at making the innovative antweight arena and I can I am impressed with the end product! It is very good to drive […]
Read More →Ok, so it’s a bit late. Not much chance lately to summarise our day out to Manchester! For those who don’t know, Manchester XR (Extreme Robots) is traditionally the first live show of the heavyweight fighting robots calendar. It brings competitors from all over the UK to EventCity in Trafford, just off the M60. Rob […]
Read More →*ahem*. I don’t like to talk much. But I might as well introduce myself. I’m a motorised golf caddy. Before fighting robots I spent many days just going round the golf courses. Nothing exciting really, it’s a job. Paid well, you got treated well. But then, one day, something terrible happened. My battery dies. My […]
Read More →Did you know that in Norse mythology, the Sun god had an sexually ambiguous sibling called Wel, and sometimes their name is confused on this particular day of the week? We call this day… WELD-DAY! … Seriously though, we do plan to do some welding on Sunday again. Anyway, we had a good day in […]
Read More →This weekend had been pencilled in to do some work on Big Dave 3. However, due to a number of factors, we couldn’t do a thing in our workshop! For one, Chris couldn’t get out of Southampton for Storm Emma (hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, it seems. Meterologically speaking, anyway…), Rob is […]
Read More →Well, it’s been a busy year in the workshop and the arena for ARC Robotics! We can look back on it with mixed feelings, mostly good. So what have we done? We started with a working heavyweight, then we added a weapon which made it not work We redesigned Big Dave 3 who is scheduled […]
Read More →Tis the season of goodwill, and in the festive spirit Ali has brewed a delicious beer, inspired by our heavyweight! Called Big Dave 3’s Nuts (and Bolts) here’s some tasting notes of his festive brew: “It’s a nutty brown ale, with added spices suited for the winter months and complementing the flavour. It’s reminiscent of […]
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