A tribute to Craig Charles
As Craig Charles goes over to the Gadget Show, here’s a tribute to his presentation style on Robot Wars, and a sneak preview of the next podcast topic!
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Update to the Official Robot Wars website!
A quick tour of the Robot Wars website in advance of Series 9. For a communications company, Mentorn have got some spelling issues to iron out (that I didn’t make too much of at the time!-Ali)… Plus a look at some of the competitors and a HUGE decision by the RW creative team led by […]
Read More →Robot Wars-2nd/9th series on TV (5th March 2017)!
Full announcement below, or if you want the audio version, listen to the above: http://www.mentorn.tv/news/2017/2/ Hope you’re as excited for the news series of Robot Wars as we are!
Read More →Practical Issues to Consider When Learning to Drive a Robot
This symbol seems appropriate for today’s 3 minute podcast…(see below for the actual podcast!)
Read More →A brief history of Battlebots and Robot Wars
Uh oh. The driver’s only gone and found some audio recording software! Here’s some work we’ve extracted from Ali summarising some of the main differences between Battlebots and Robot Wars before he started speaking so fast he broke the sound barrier. Before you know it Ali will have discovered some of the internet’s other joys… […]
Read More →Look after your batteries!!!!
First up, a quick disclaimer: Building and battling fighting robots is dangerous and should not be attempted without great care! But hopefully you knew that anyway. Lithium Polymer batteries are where it’s at now, and while they’re relatively tough…. they’re not combat robot tough…. far from it. Lithium Polymer Batteries have a very, very peculiar discharge […]
Read More →Robot Wars – Series 9 (or is it Series 2)
So, last week, I set off to Glasgow, hellbent on watching as much robot carnage as possible – something that I feel I achieved. It was, of course, the recordings for Series 9 of our beloved TV show: Robot Wars. Now…. I’m going to be truthfully honest, I don’t actually know whether it’s Series 9 or […]
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