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 →It’s cold outside, no kind of stratosphere I’m all alone, more or less, Let me flail, far away from here, Swish, swish, swish, in the ring, ring, ring. I want to push, crush and annihilate Taking dents out of your plates Twisted Nipplenuts nibbling at your bots! Swish, swish, swish, in the ring, ring, ring […]
Read More →Today Ali went to the first ever Robodojo, hosted by KB Technologies in their workshop near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. It was billed as a place for roboteers to meet, socialise and fight bots! Starting at 10 (Ali arrived late due to the Kirkstall Festival in Leeds and housewarming party in York the night before), there […]
Read More →Last weekend, we hosted the 55th Antweight World Series at Dunchurch Village Hall, near Rugby. The full video will be out at some point tomorrow – but for now, here’s a teaser:
Read More →AWS 55 has been and gone. What happened*? We used ARC’s (read Chris’s) brand new Antweight arena and it worked! OK, the floor wasn’t perfect and the software threw a hiccup a couple of times, but other than that the actual event seemed to largely go off without a hitch. It handled 6 1/2 hours […]
Read More →So, it’s the night before Antweight World Series 55. What is this, I hear you cry? And how come the other 54 iterations of said institution haven’t lit up the world yet? And how are going to remedy this situation? Antweight World Series is also known as AWS. As you can probably guess, there have been […]
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 […]
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