Author: Robert Keyes
Stop Talking, Start Doing: Another Featherweight
This’ll be a monster post, etotheipiplusone style, so strap in. It started off as a fairly simple plan: I have made zero progress on any featherweights I’ve set out to do mainly due to life (new job, new city, the paintball season (it’s a thing), filming, ‘Merica, lack of money, etc) – so naturally, it’s […]
Read More →Hug Machine + Moving
I’m moving to London! Some fun career times ahead, but that means that I’ll be spending less time at the workshop than I’d like. So, after doing some internet research, I learned that I won’t be living too far from the South London Makerspace – which is awesome! They’ve got things like lathes, a mill, […]
Read More →A better way of doing tyres
Progress – at least, in my head – continues at a good pace. We’re on track for being able to test & tune the robot at Extreme Robots Manchester, complete with weapon. However, a big sticking point on the build has been a rather simple one. Tyres. I thought I was going great – the […]
Read More →Dave’s Triumphant Return
After a few months of hiatus, Big Dave 3 is back! So…. what happened? Well, we at Team ARC had a little disagreement with some metal and some bloke called Issac. The original Big Dave 3 had a huge drum, held in place with 15mm plates. It stuck out of the robot body far as […]
Read More →Boing! MK2 – Design Evaluation Pt2.
Boing! has been progressing, albeit slowly. I’ve mainly been designing baseplates, realising that they’ll bend, designing another one…. you get the picture. It’s been a slow process, and with real life getting in the way once again, there has been no progress on the design of a high flow 5/3 solenoid valve that I am […]
Read More →Boing! MK2 (Design Evaluation Pt. 1)
Boing! has gone on a diet – both in terms of size and in terms of hitting power. Let’s display that ever-so-loved spec sheet. 2 x NTM 4258 Propdrive Motors (500KV) 7.2:1 Reduction, 80mm driven diameter – 14.5mph top speed. 2x 6S Batteries, 2650mAH NanoTech’s. ESCs are TZ85A’s, Simon K’d Pneumatic Axe weapon (details below) Tank […]
Read More →Robot Wars is BACK!!!!
22nd of October. Robot Wars returns to our screens on BBC 2 on 22/10/17. The hype train is rolling, and although Chris has all the spoilers, Rob & Ali can’t wait to see what happens in season 3!
Read More →We Need to Talk About Dave.
As you will no doubt have seen, Chris and Ali have become quite enamoured with Antweights and Featherweights respectively. However, the main goal of all of this in the first place was to get Big Dave 3 up and running. To that end…. redesign time! Big Dave has now been redesigned at the insistence of […]
Read More →Boing! A new featherweight arrives (hopefully)
Hi All! It’s Rob here, ARC’s captain (somehow) and designer of our heavyweight robot, Big Dave 3. We’ve all been pretty quiet over the last few weeks, due to a bit of a lull in build progress (a whole series of small snowballing problems) and because we haven’t all had much time to all be […]
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