Category: Robot Wars
Apollo v Carbide part 1
All copyrights on background noise to Robot Wars 2017.
Read More →Live Apollo commentary (sort of)
Excerpt from my commentary style. All background noise copyright Robot Wars 2017.
Read More →Series 9 Episode 4 review
Tags: Shunt favouritism, stored kinetic carnage (and numbness), crossed wires, sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains excite me (so much I might catch fire)…
Read More →Series 9 Episode 3 Review
Tags: Quota for quotes, someone please check what is Jonathan Pearce is on, and can I have some of it? Drone impressions, a career change for beekeepers, heel turns to anti-hero.
Read More →The 10 Week build – Week 6
So, as we get to the end of the sixth week of building, suddenly it’s lots of steps forwards. Actually, more like revolutions forward (and backward). We’ve got a rolling chassis on the featherweight. I’ll let the video do the talking: We mounted that board on the top just to get things rolling. Sadly, we […]
Read More →The 10 week build – Week 5
Blimey – where’s the time gone. It doesn’t feel like it’s week 5, and I (Chris) certainly don’t have a lot to show for it other than a lot of (now useless) plastic that’s been 3D printed….. That’s right – we’re 3D printing a Featherweight….. Actually, the finished thing won’t be 3D printed, but we’re […]
Read More →Robot Wars dynasties
While we put Ali back on the morphine drip after his stint on Stars in Their Eyes (see last podcast) we have done some research before our next build weekend to discover just how far some of the current crop of robots can trace their family tree…
Read More →Series 9 Episode 1 Review
Series 9 episode 1: Highlights- Matilda’s Tinder account, Connect 4, “Doo-Dad”, reference to a podcast that hasn’t been released yet and I can’t say head-to-head without saying group stages
Read More →Ali’s predictions for series 9
Egged on to some extent by Chris, here’s a list of my favourites for the Robot Wars championship! I’ve also decided that I will have a table of actual results to show how close I was to the result. Being anti-flipper, this bias shows up a bit… the actual results table I will update asap! […]
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