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 It’s now outdated and kinda wrong… Secondly, Happy 2017!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 […]

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 […]

Back in late August, the first bit of progress happened – tyres! With a daily commute that takes Rob past Red Lodge Karting in Cambridgeshire, Go Kart tyres were the obvious choice for Big Dave 3 – large enough to provide traction on a slippery Glaswegian hangar floor, abundant enough that other roboteers would use […]