The Exrreme Robots events have had a change around in the way they operate, and now the focus is more team and weight classes collaborating together to win the show. So teams are made of a mix of heavy, middle and featherweights all categorised into teams at random from hat for heavy and mid, and randomly for feathers. The aim is for all the yellow team to win matches to gain points to win the show then ultimately the series of shows in a location. Then overall throughout the year.

It worked well but yellow team should have won any Al! The feather battle was a bit biased first of all, only 2 yellows went in, 2 emerged but as 5ere were more pink bots in the arena they won lol, it’s all fun anyway! The winner is made by one of the crew who watches over the fights and chooses.

Funny enoug, I was going to pop into Halfords on my way back from work today and ask, that would be ideal, otherwise I will pop to the tip and see if I can get anything from there. I did get a tyre from a car boot sale for pence, but 5at one is a nice mitchellan brand so it’s better than the ones on my bike currently!

I’m thinking I may give both knobbly and slick a go and try it out at an event.

I am working on a mod where I can add a bearing to support the shaft of the Argos drill to stop it having play, which is the cause of those tabs breaking apart where the gearbox locks into the motor. This is a result of having a heavy bot resting with just the 1 fixing point in the gearbox mount. Am hoping it will be a simpler mod than supporting the shaft from the other side.