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 →I’m moving to London! Some fun career times ahead, but that means that I’ll be spending less time at the workshop than I’d like. So, after doing some internet research, I learned that I won’t be living too far from the South London Makerspace – which is awesome! They’ve got things like lathes, a mill, […]
Read More →Warning: Building robots is dangerous and must not be attempted without great care. Everything shown & described here was conducted in a controlled, carefully monitored environment with multiple people keeping an eye on proceedings. For the last six months we’ve been wanting to use the drum on Catch Me If You Can – and this […]
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 →In case you hadn’t heard, we’ve been fighting with one of our robots! I forgot to mention that the Featherweight class is 13.6Kg in the UK (about 0.4Kg less than the US version). The Extreme robots tour can be found here, along with tickets for the shows: http://www.extremerobots.co.uk/live
Read More →For those of you that follow us on Facebook, you’d know that we were are the Extreme Robots Portsmouth event this weekend just gone. Being just two weeks between Manchester and Portsmouth did not give us much time to do repairs, or indeed make any improvements. We therefore had to skip the first show on […]
Read More →Wow…. what a weekend. I (Chris) am exhausted and really need lots and lots more sleep than I’ve had last night. The weekend didn’t start off too well for us, as we learned we were unable to run the drum on Catch Me If You Can due to an issue with the arena roof. This led […]
Read More →We’ve reached the end of the build! I (Chris) am quite frankly exhausted, the machine shop I use are wondering what’s coming next (and not everything quite fitted together when I was over there on Wednesday), and I could do with a break. We present – Catch Me If You Can – the fastest featherweight […]
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 […]
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