Summary:Team ARC made a surprise appearance to Maidstone to bring Big Dave 3 to the arena for the first time! Reality:Team ARC made a surprise appearance to Maidstone to bring Big Dave 3 to the arena… only to find he (she? it?) is partial to eating its own tyres, so we didn’t get to test […]
Read More →Ok, so it’s a bit late. Not much chance lately to summarise our day out to Manchester! For those who don’t know, Manchester XR (Extreme Robots) is traditionally the first live show of the heavyweight fighting robots calendar. It brings competitors from all over the UK to EventCity in Trafford, just off the M60. Rob […]
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 →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 →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 →Hi All! It’s Rob here, ARC’s captain (somehow) and designer of our heavyweight robot, Big Dave 3. We’ve all been pretty quiet over the last few weeks, due to a bit of a lull in build progress (a whole series of small snowballing problems) and because we haven’t all had much time to all be […]
Read More →Apologies for the cat in the background. On a side note if there is a French version of Robot Wars (which, I have reliably been informed, does not translate into Guerre de Robots), please let me know!!
Read More →Now, normally, at this stage, we’d have brought you an update on Big Dave 3, but since it’s fairly muddy over what we can and cannot post online about it once we’ve applied for Robot Wars, we’re going to have leave that for another day. So, instead, we’ll leave you with some footage of our ludicrously […]
Read More →It’s been a while since I (Rob) posted – and as it’s Robot Wars application time, and that means making sure that Dave drives around and looks fast! We’ve got a lot more than these few clips, and we’ve even been practicing to the Robot Wars 3…2…1…Activate! Soon to come – weaponry! But for now, […]
Read More →Should’ve done this 2 weeks ago but sometimes life gets in the way… My microphone has bust so this is going to be a text blog. Our build weekend, which started so promisingly, didn’t quite go as planned. To start with we didn’t have all of the bits we wanted (again!), so we’re looking at […]
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