A tribute to Craig Charles
As Craig Charles goes over to the Gadget Show, here’s a tribute to his presentation style on Robot Wars, and a sneak preview of the next podcast topic!
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Update to the Official Robot Wars website!
A quick tour of the Robot Wars website in advance of Series 9. For a communications company, Mentorn have got some spelling issues to iron out (that I didn’t make too much of at the time!-Ali)… Plus a look at some of the competitors and a HUGE decision by the RW creative team led by […]
Read More →Robot Wars-2nd/9th series on TV (5th March 2017)!
Full announcement below, or if you want the audio version, listen to the above: http://www.mentorn.tv/news/2017/2/ Hope you’re as excited for the news series of Robot Wars as we are!
Read More →Build weekend review 29th January 2017
Should’ve done this 2 weeks ago but sometimes life gets in the way… My microphone has bust so this is going to be a text blog. Our build weekend, which started so promisingly, didn’t quite go as planned. To start with we didn’t have all of the bits we wanted (again!), so we’re looking at […]
Read More →Practical Issues to Consider When Learning to Drive a Robot
This symbol seems appropriate for today’s 3 minute podcast…(see below for the actual podcast!)
Read More →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 →What’s It Like To Drive Big Dave 3?
I’m Ali, the designated driver for Big Dave 3 (as the title suggests, no alcohol please while on duty). Over the course of building Big Dave 3 we’ve had the opportunity to test how it handles on a variety of surfaces. However, that’s not the main focus of my first blog post for the ARC […]
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