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 →Humour very much takes a back shelf in this podcast. I wasn’t exactly comfortable with myself before recording this, but it is an ethical enquiry that may help put Robot Wars into a wider perspective for the listener. Music: www.purpleplanet.com
Read More →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 →A loudmouth Featherweight who apparently needs no introduction*. I am told that an image will be arriving soon of this robot… All music from Purple Planet. *In receiving this broadcast from ARC-TV I did have to do some subtle editing to make it audible for human consumption!
Read More →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 →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 →For those of a philosophical leaning, listen on. For those who aren’t, you might need a translator for all the proto-Slavic, Latin, German, communism, capitalism, the BBC, MIT, and ethics… Part 1 – the definition and origin of the term robots! Music: http://www.purple-planet.com
Read More →First off an apology – this should’ve got posted about 3 weeks back…. but the real world decided to get in the way….. Part of the fun of doing stuff for combat robotics is solving complex challenges. Antweights present a whole host of complex challenges one of which is finding a speed controller that’s small […]
Read More →I (Chris) have always fancied Antweights as a weight class. The level of challenge involved in building a combat robot that small, that light, and still capable of ripping other people’s creations to shreds has always piqued my interest as something that’s possible, but not easy. Plus they’re really, really cute. OK, they’re cute until […]
Read More →Confession time – we’ve been a bit quiet around here recently. That’s partly down to a lack of time in the workshop, and partly down to us all having our own little projects on the go outside of what we do here. However, all that’s about to change. Over the next 3 months, we have […]
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