Cassius

I live just outside Stowmarket.

It was a few years ago I went mind, but I don't remember it being a long drive......

Yeah me and Alex( bodge job) live just outside ipswich

Just seen this thread....

Top bloke, if it wasnt for him i wouldnt be doing robot stuff now, Same as a few other roboteers that started at a similar time to me...

Totally agree. When I was younger all my robot designs were for heavyweights, despite not having the money, space, time and know-how, but that was what fought on TV so that was all I had to go by. It wasn't really until his robot challenge articles started in the Real Robots magazines that I began to see the practicalities of feathers (and even then, it took me until the 19th or 20th issue before it caught my eye).

I wouldn't put my interest in robot combat down to him entirely - the show as a whole was a major factor in that - but the guidance in his articles and the 2004 challenge were instrumental in physically getting me started in all this :)

Hey me too! Almost exactly. Except the robot I built back then never got completed.

After I have made Bitza I think I'll finish it, just for laughs. I'll call it Bitza 0.5, since it was the original....

He sounds like a really cook guy i could really do with getting in contact with him i read his workshop builds that used to be in the ultimate robot magazine and he talks about a speed controller they made but none of the contacts in the magazine now work.

Oh yeh, I know what you mean.

ESC's aren't too expensive, would probably be easier to just buy a couple. Check out Electronize.

Trouble is i dont know what one to get i could do with some help really

Have a poke around on the FeatherWeight section of the forum (assuming your building a FW), every question that needs to be answered has already been asked there somewhere.

Also check out the RioBotz tutorial, very helpful.

well im building something abit strange i want to build a heavyweight machine that will be capable of pushing snow as a plow sounds strange i know but this is the best place i think to get help