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I was round at my friends house yesterday and his neighbour is Rex Goddard the owner of Cassius and recyclopse anyone heared of these robots. Cassius was on series 1, 2 and 3 I think.
I went over to his house to make paper rockets and he was the builder of brum! I saw it on his table. He also did the upgrade to K9 to make remote control!
http://web.archive.org/web/200610081621 ... t_wars.htm
Recyclopse was series 1, Cassius series 2 and Cassius 2 series 3. I think he also built a Cassius 3 but didn't use it as he fell out with Mentorn? Ask him to bring them along to some shows for display haha.
He was a kids tv presenter for a bit too if I remember right as well as building Brum.
fell out with mentorn on a health and safety issue, then didnt enter again after that.
http://robotwars.wikia.com/wiki/Team...od.27s_Protest
...surprised how much behind the scenes politics finds its way onto Wiki, who logs these things?
It's funny how anal the mentorn crew were about some things and yet never bothered with others. Think I saw a good two or three robots be activated accidentally at various times when I was there over the years and yet we were asked to take the robot outside when we were re-spraying the paintjob. It would seem that an aircraft hanger doesn't count as a well ventilated area :P
When I was about 10 I went round to Rex's house, as he lives quite close. That was when I was first getting into robots so he showed me some stuff. Really nice, generous guy, plus I think I got to see Cassius 2 (or it ma have been 3?) half built in his workshop. That's when I really got bitten with the Robot bug!
Did he ever compete with Cassius 3? I went to one of these non-televised events ages ago in Norwich and I think he was there with Cassius 3.
Where about do you live as I live quite near rex's
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
Ah Ok. Well check the HW section of the forum and I'd still look at the RioBotz tutorial. I don't know anything about building HW's so can't really help, but the type of Robot Rex is building in those magazine tutorials is a FW and those ESC's wouldn't be up to the power of a HW.
Ok thanks will have a look at that and hopefully someone will be able to lead me in the right direction with the speed controller
Rex is one of the main reasons I wanted to build robots! Do you think it would be possible to build a Featherweight Cassius I, thats was better that II in my opinion! It looked like a double summersault in the air! :-D
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Well finished your current machine first you idiot...
Hes already built a fw cassius, cassius junoir