Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

Thats a good topic actually, I shall add it to the agenda. The location is most likely to be at our workshop here in Birmingham. Less than a mile of the M6 junction 6.

Ive had a couple of emails asking if people can bring Heavies. All weight classes are more than welcome, problems are problems which ever weight class you are in. Testing of heavies though is possible depending on the type of robot etc. We will do our best to cater for all. We are most likely to be putting up the inner arena and some screening to make testing possible. That way hopefully people can try new things and give the robot a quick run around.

How big is your workshop?

Everything is relative i guess. We have a reasonable area where we can put up some pit tables in the main loading bay. In the stores room we will try and set up the inner arena which will double up as a stage for presentations and seminars. Im going to try and get some images to go on a big projector to help for the talks that are held so fingers crossed should make a good event. If there is plenty of support we will make it an annual or bi annual event/awards ceremony.

We already have 1 guest to talk about our first topic. I am passionate about learning, and its not just for new people. I too am hoping to learn a lot whilst I am there. Its also a good time for people who would like to learn how to tech check or learn how to use CO2 refill equipment or just get their robots running nicely.

I would also like to specifically invite all the nominated teams to come. It would be great to have everyone there for the awards. No one will know the results until on the day.

Should be a nice event/get together. Hopefully a good amount of new roboteers can get to it, They should be able to learn alot from an event like this

Sounds ike a great idea James!
I will defo be going!

How big is it in sq foot? Can spinner testing be done?

Might be interested in going, could also do a talk. Though if it's as packed as gadget show I'll just rage quit .

The Gadget Show event pits-area was busy yes, but it was a small sacrifice for a great event.

There's a strong likelihood that I'll be living/working in or around Durham at the time of this event/get-together, which means it should be easy enough to pop down whatever weekend it's held. Not sure if there's much I'm enough of an expert on to talk about, but I'd be happy to film the talks and upload them for the people of the internet to enjoy. I'd also be quite interested in the possible tech-checker training and CO2 filling station segments.

If I manage along, it should be with both robots. Just ordered a new belt (and a spare!) for Drumroll's drum, although it's not a problem if we can't run spinners.

Would be great if you could come Jamie although I appreciate it is a long way for you. Your probably the most experienced drum spinner around and have a great knowledge of drum diameters, ways to mount them and dimensions for teeth which I know people building drums would find very valuable. I was suprised to see so many drum spinners at the champs this year so they are definitely popular. Would be great to do the tech checking course too.

I appreciate the pits were tight at the champs, However the main problem was teams that were not competing still left their tools and brought whiteboard robots. Now we do really appreciate everyone's support however at that particular event it reduced space for competing teams. At our workshop it's naturally not a massive space however we should be able to get plenty of teams in with no issues. Its not about pit space it's about the value of testing your machines, making modifications, doing more testing and learning from experienced people with new ideas. That way you don't have to learn during a full combat event against NST lol. We already have some great sessions lined up, we are going to make it as good as it can be :)

If anyone wants to come along and help with getting Erics hydraulics going then as long as i'm fit ill come along :proud: . Could be a good teaching piece if there is a hydraulics seminar going on over the course of the event too.

Not entirely selfish reasons for wanting to go of course though, missed the champs so would be great to get to one RC event at least :lol:

If Jamie isn't off to windmills-new we could probably manage a bus load of us all coming down the M6 :crazy:

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Originally Posted by k_c_r

The best I have to offer so far is 20 seconds into this fight, although Dave Taylor got some good footage of its boogy-woogies in a demo

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And the good man has uploaded said video :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS73VwDsjLo