So…. a very quick update from the workshop before we head for some (well earned) sleep! IT MOVES!   And here’s the day’s worth of building, wrapped up in 55 seconds of timelapse…..

We promised to bring you updates as they come. Here’s the first of hopefully many updates to come.  We have the first of our drive assemblies prepared!

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 […]

(Chris) Motors have been a massive bone of contention in the ARC team.  Rob wants the most powerful motors he can find…. Chris wants ones he can actually find speed controllers for…. and Ali… doesn’t really care – as long as the robot goes in a straight line! We settled (quite some time ago) on […]

Early on chilly Saturday morning, Rob and Chris set off for Ali’s place to start the mammoth task of building Big Dave 3 in under 2 months.  Progress was, as is always the case, fashionably slow on the Saturday morning – with little evidence of any real progress to show by lunchtime.  However, as Saturday started […]