Robo Challenge at Fleet Air Arm Museum

[typhoon_driver]

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

[RogueTwoRobots]

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

[Pugster2002]

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

[cliveb]

Happy camping guys,hope its not to cold or snowing

[PJ-27]

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

Take lots of videos!

[Pugster2002]

Done it

[Pugster2002]

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

[Pugster2002]

I was the only person with a beetle weight today

[Ellis]

I was the only person with a beetle weight today

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).

[mattsdragons]

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