While I (Chris) suspect many budding robot builders have actually spent the Christmas period working on their robots – something evidenced by the hive of activity on the Fighting Robots Association forums – we’ve been using it as time to reflect where we are, get things ordered in ready for our next build session and […]
Read More →So, last week, I set off to Glasgow, hellbent on watching as much robot carnage as possible – something that I feel I achieved. It was, of course, the recordings for Series 9 of our beloved TV show: Robot Wars. Now…. I’m going to be truthfully honest, I don’t actually know whether it’s Series 9 or […]
Read More →On the evening of the 10th of December, Big Dave 3 took some seriously important first steps – we hooked up the belts to the drive and the motors to the belts – and started driving! Here’s a quick video of Ali learning the controls – at this point in time, the acceleration curve on the controller […]
Read More →So…. a very quick update from the workshop before we head for some (well earned) sleep! IT MOVES! And here’s the day’s worth of building, wrapped up in 55 seconds of timelapse…..
Read More →We promised to bring you updates as they come. Here’s the first of hopefully many updates to come. We have the first of our drive assemblies prepared!
Read More →(Chris) Motors have been a massive bone of contention in the ARC team. Rob wants the most powerful motors he can find…. Chris wants ones he can actually find speed controllers for…. and Ali… doesn’t really care – as long as the robot goes in a straight line! We settled (quite some time ago) on […]
Read More →Early on chilly Saturday morning, Rob and Chris set off for Ali’s place to start the mammoth task of building Big Dave 3 in under 2 months. Progress was, as is always the case, fashionably slow on the Saturday morning – with little evidence of any real progress to show by lunchtime. However, as Saturday started […]
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