Covid births a featherweight (or at least is at the ovulation stage)
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 […]
Read More →Belated happy 2020!
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 […]
Read More →Team ARC’s academic article!
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 […]
Read More →Twisted Nipplenuts Part 3 – Electrics
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 […]
Read More →Twisted Nipplenuts Part 2 – The Chassis
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 […]
Read More →Rex Garrod – the man who inspired a generation (but without ever really being present) (Obituary)
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 […]
Read More →Twisted Nipplenuts Build Part 1 – Design Philosophy and Project Design
Today begins the build of the antweight Twisted Nipplenuts, inspired by Gabriel from the Robot Wars TV show (and live tours from Xtreme Robots) and Kryten from Red Dwarf. Using some recycled materials, some sound expert advice and some novel ideas I will set about building my antweight, from my own room in Yorkshire. Yup, […]
Read More →Big Dave 3 – It’s alive
Two year, and nearly 4 months after we started this mad project as a bunch of friends, who had no idea how to engineer themselves out of a mess of their own making….. We’ve made huge amounts of progress. That’s right folks – we’ve got Big Dave finally on the war path. Sure, there’s no […]
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