Robo Challenge at Fleet Air Arm Museum

We're looking into new batteries and we have got to the point of needing an address. We considered my sister who lives in Bristol, who we will be visiting after this event, in order to have the batteries ready for the champs. However it occurred to us that we may be able to do better in time for this event, plus fuel will likely be an issue (typically) considering the current situation in the UK. Is there anyone here who would be willing to have our batteries sent to them, for us to pick them up from said person as this event? It would facilitate things for us greatly. Needless to say we would pay all costs; you would only have to fling 'em in the boot of your car.

The package would consist of two 18v NiMH packs and a charger.

Thanks in advance.

I'll be willing to take them in for you Ellis, pm me and I'll send you my address.

We leave to head down to the venue on Monday, would that be too late?

We'll be ordering them today. The parts are from Component-Shop. Not sure what they're like postage-wise, but it's possible Monday will be too early even though it's UK-to-UK.

I have PMd you, Dave.

Thanks for the immediate replies! This is a great help.

Could I wreck my computer thingy with my robot :mrgreen:

You can certainly try, PC towers can be quite tough though. Usually it takes a good spinner to take one apart.

Got an old laptop along with a bunch of old server units I'm planning on bringing down as long as there is space in the car

A bit of a hopeless error (link to build thread) means I'm going to have to pull out of this one to get the feather in reasonable running shape I'm afraid. I'm a fool to have left most of the build to the last minute as this is the kind of thing that inevitably happens when you do!

I wish you all the best for the event and promise to wait until I've got something finished before signing up next time..

Well Boner is all good to go. Just going to tidy up the wiring tomorrow. Had it running around the driveway earlier

Good to hear Boner's ready to hump again. Those endcaps arrive alright?

Yeah they arrived fine. Meant to drop you a text the other day. Cheers bud!

Have fun everyone competing tomorrow and Thursday, hope all the dangerous robots get beaten up before the champs :lol:

I'm not going on wendseday I'm going tomorrow but I still don't have my robot done :mrgreen: it's a race against time :rofl:

Happy camping guys,hope its not to cold or snowing :lol: :lol:

As it stands we currently have 3 'in progress' robots, so wouldn't have been able to make it.

Take lots of videos!

Done it http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/...9/e537a3e2.jpg

I'm so exited about this event I'm so exited I have not slept one bit can't wait to be there :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I was the only person with a beetle weight today

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Ah well, at least you got to meet the people and the robots. Plus you got to drive Little Hitter, which must have been great fun. Beetleweights aren't quite up and running as much as the other weight classes, but there are several people who are very interested in getting a beetleweight arena on the go and there are already quite a few finished and half-finished beetle machines in place. I doubt it will be long until the weight class takes off. :)

As for the event from our perspective, it was great! We learned a lot about our own machine, including that (PJ warned me) our chopping boards are closer to glass in the way they behave than other popular plastics. I can't upload videos immediately (posting this via a cheap dongle at the Halfway camp-site), but they should be up in a few weeks at the latest. Satan's Mutt did us good, in an odd way. The champs will hopefully be a little less destructive than they would have been otherwise.

Our link messed us around (shorted onto another lead), though that probably saved us more damage from the Mutt. We fixed it and under guidance replaced it with a simple dean's. Works a treat. We also lost a gearbox, the motor came semi-away from the gearbox and the we stripped all three plastic gears. Took a massive overhaul to fix and replace, but we managed it; we were literally screwing it together as we carried it to the arena!

Many many thanks to everyone there, namely Grant and James for being generally brilliant (you guys work incredibly hard, I can't imagine what you will have to be doing at the champs!), Dave was also just generally very helpful, thanks to Paul for helping us to cut the oak floorboard (supplied by the pub, haha), and to Gary for gearbox help.

I'm writing way too much and we need to get going, so, thanks again, see you next week (hopefully in one piece).

I've got a large amount of 10mm polycarb if you want snythig a little stronger for the champs or before you head back over to spain?

Pm if your interested ;)

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Is that the guitar jack? I told you that too!!

Sorry Pugster, Spinza is still in bits.

Well 1100 miles or so later and I'm back home. Great chilled out event with some really good battles. Only managed to blow a single brushless speed controller and nacker a couple of plastic drill gearboxes (need to make some ali ones). Shame I can't make it to the champs but I guess that's me got my fix for the year. Thanks to all involved!

Thank you very much to everyone who supported this event, we really do appreciate it. The museum were really pleased with the show you guys put on and with the number through the door its looking pretty certain to be an annual event.

Thank you very much Dave Weston for all your help with setting up and taking down. Well done Gary for putting on a spectacular show with Boner. Tormenta worked brilliantly for its first event well done Ellis, great guys.

Once again thank you all very much, we look forward to seeing you at the Gadget Show next week and hopefully we can get another event at Fleet all booked up for next year!

Later this year?.....

We need an event in August/October to fill the annual gap!

PJ, Mad Metal Machines (full combat in Germany) is taking place September 29th/30th and I think quite a few roboteers from the UK are planning on going over. That should sort your fix right out :wink:

I thought MMM was just a few days ago? But yeh that should!

2 MMM's in a year, 13 was a few days ago, 14 is in September.

That's what we need in this country!