Warning: Non-technical people may want to look away now! It seems that brushless motor controllers are a dark art to many… unless you happen to be SimonK, or Ellis Ware – the man behind Pulsar. After having a bit of a run-in with the 120A HobbyKing X-Car Beast speed controllers we had (in that they […]
Read More →So, as we get to the end of the sixth week of building, suddenly it’s lots of steps forwards. Actually, more like revolutions forward (and backward). We’ve got a rolling chassis on the featherweight. I’ll let the video do the talking: We mounted that board on the top just to get things rolling. Sadly, we […]
Read More →Tags: So very numb from that last episode, flip count, new records, quotes from the roboteers and judges, Bigger Brother, trantums (and everyone will surely understand when I say “prams out of the toy”?)
Read More →Blimey – where’s the time gone. It doesn’t feel like it’s week 5, and I (Chris) certainly don’t have a lot to show for it other than a lot of (now useless) plastic that’s been 3D printed….. That’s right – we’re 3D printing a Featherweight….. Actually, the finished thing won’t be 3D printed, but we’re […]
Read More →While we put Ali back on the morphine drip after his stint on Stars in Their Eyes (see last podcast) we have done some research before our next build weekend to discover just how far some of the current crop of robots can trace their family tree…
Read More →Series 9 episode 1: Highlights- Matilda’s Tinder account, Connect 4, “Doo-Dad”, reference to a podcast that hasn’t been released yet and I can’t say head-to-head without saying group stages
Read More →Egged on to some extent by Chris, here’s a list of my favourites for the Robot Wars championship! I’ve also decided that I will have a table of actual results to show how close I was to the result. Being anti-flipper, this bias shows up a bit… the actual results table I will update asap! […]
Read More →As Craig Charles goes over to the Gadget Show, here’s a tribute to his presentation style on Robot Wars, and a sneak preview of the next podcast topic!
Read More →A quick tour of the Robot Wars website in advance of Series 9. For a communications company, Mentorn have got some spelling issues to iron out (that I didn’t make too much of at the time!-Ali)… Plus a look at some of the competitors and a HUGE decision by the RW creative team led by […]
Read More →Full announcement below, or if you want the audio version, listen to the above: http://www.mentorn.tv/news/2017/2/ Hope you’re as excited for the news series of Robot Wars as we are!
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