With any luck, we’ll be competing in Robot Wars this year! Merry everything, happy etc. Now – onto the update. We spent the weekend of Jan 7/8 putting some more bits on Big Dave and breaking a few more. Whilst we didn’t make the progress that we thought we were going to make, we made […]

Let’s, once again, talk about bearings. First things – ignore this! It’s now outdated and kinda wrong… Secondly, Happy 2017! This will be the year that we get on Robot Wars, hopefully! Those bearings, whilst still cool, won’t sustain any sort of impact for any sort of time. Instead, we’re going for Taper Roller Bearings, normally […]

I think, this time, we’ll let the video speak for itself.

While I (Chris) suspect many budding robot builders have actually spent the Christmas period working on their robots – something evidenced by the hive of activity on the Fighting Robots Association forums – we’ve been using it as time to reflect where we are, get things ordered in ready for our next build session and […]

This is just a quick one from me (Rob) about bearings – one of the key components of just about anything that moves! More specifically, I’m going to be talking about the ones that we’re planning to use on our weapon axle – Self Aligning Bearings, courtesy of SKF. Now, if you’ve never heard of […]

I’m Ali, the designated driver for Big Dave 3 (as the title suggests, no alcohol please while on duty). Over the course of building Big Dave 3 we’ve had the opportunity to test how it handles on a variety of surfaces. However, that’s not the main focus of my first blog post for the ARC […]

On the evening of the 10th of December, Big Dave 3 took some seriously important first steps – we hooked up the belts to the drive and the motors to the belts – and started driving! Here’s a quick video of Ali learning the controls – at this point in time, the acceleration curve on the controller […]