Today Ali went to the first ever Robodojo, hosted by KB Technologies in their workshop near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. It was billed as a place for roboteers to meet, socialise and fight bots! Starting at 10 (Ali arrived late due to the Kirkstall Festival in Leeds and housewarming party in York the night before), there […]
Read More →Last weekend, we hosted the 55th Antweight World Series at Dunchurch Village Hall, near Rugby. The full video will be out at some point tomorrow – but for now, here’s a teaser:
Read More →AWS 55 has been and gone. What happened*? We used ARC’s (read Chris’s) brand new Antweight arena and it worked! OK, the floor wasn’t perfect and the software threw a hiccup a couple of times, but other than that the actual event seemed to largely go off without a hitch. It handled 6 1/2 hours […]
Read More →So, it’s the night before Antweight World Series 55. What is this, I hear you cry? And how come the other 54 iterations of said institution haven’t lit up the world yet? And how are going to remedy this situation? Antweight World Series is also known as AWS. As you can probably guess, there have been […]
Read More →Did you know that in Norse mythology, the Sun god had an sexually ambiguous sibling called Wel, and sometimes their name is confused on this particular day of the week? We call this day… WELD-DAY! … Seriously though, we do plan to do some welding on Sunday again. Anyway, we had a good day in […]
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 →Well, it’s been a busy year in the workshop and the arena for ARC Robotics! We can look back on it with mixed feelings, mostly good. So what have we done? We started with a working heavyweight, then we added a weapon which made it not work We redesigned Big Dave 3 who is scheduled […]
Read More →Tis the season of goodwill, and in the festive spirit Ali has brewed a delicious beer, inspired by our heavyweight! Called Big Dave 3’s Nuts (and Bolts) here’s some tasting notes of his festive brew: “It’s a nutty brown ale, with added spices suited for the winter months and complementing the flavour. It’s reminiscent of […]
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 →We’ve had another workshop weekend, and this time we reflect on the UK Heavyweight Championships in Stevenage (to think it was only a week ago!), our bots and our thoughts on the 10th (or 3rd) series of Robot Wars! The link to the brief history of Battlebots and Robot Wars can be found here.
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