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 →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 →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 →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 →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 […]
Read More →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 →Warning: Building robots is dangerous and must not be attempted without great care. Everything shown & described here was conducted in a controlled, carefully monitored environment with multiple people keeping an eye on proceedings. For the last six months we’ve been wanting to use the drum on Catch Me If You Can – and this […]
Read More →We’ve had another workshop weekend, and this time we reflect on the UK Heavyweight Championships in Stevenage (to think it was only a week ago!), our bots and our thoughts on the 10th (or 3rd) series of Robot Wars! The link to the brief history of Battlebots and Robot Wars can be found here.
Read More →Here’s something to listen to in the background of any important project- the pre-fight tinkering of robots on event day. This was on set at Robots Live in Stevenage, before the UK Championships 2017. Unedited bliss. Oh, and some of the weird conversations that Ali and Rob sometimes have… NB NOT FOR CHILDREN as it does […]
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