Ooh, new series of robot wars is out.

And I still can't get the thoughts of how much fun getting involved might be.

So it's time to get stuck in.

And the sensible part of my brain says that I should start with a featherweight to get a better idea of what is involved and because it's likely to be a much quicker and easier way to get to the stage of competing and 'learn by doing'.

In the spirit of 'stop talking and do it already' it occurs to me than an excellent starting point would be a robot that is already mostly complete. In a perfect world something that is ready to fight out of the box would be great, but mostly i'm interested in something I can cannibalize the control hardware and drive train from.

All of which takes us to the question of the moment:
Does anyone have an old feather (in mostly running order) in their shed that they arn't using any more and would like to turn into cold, hard cash to fund other robot projects?


Cheers