Wow what a weekend!

Firstly can I say thank you very much to every one who cameto the Robo Challenge Open Day and I certainly hope you all enjoyed the event. Saturday was fantastic with brilliant talks, all of which were very enlightening.

Sam Smith gave us a fantastic insight into every stage of reliability when building a spinner. Really well presented and lots of great little tips. We can see why NST is such a good machine.

Kane Aston produce a great talk on pneumatics including a description of all the parts along with some handy tips he uses for Behemoth in making your system leak free.

Andy from Optifuel put on a super talk about Lithium batteries and really cleared the air with facts about the battery technology and their safety. We then saw what happens to lipos on the discharge rig and also what happens when Lipos are shorted or punctured. Very enlightening.

Ian Lewis gave us a fantastic insight into creating an inspiring machine. His insights into how team Razer thought about Robot Wars and how they tackled their challenges was very personal and really helped open our eyes to creating machines that will fulfill our own goal and inspire audiences. A really nice way to complete our 4 sessions.

Thank you very much to Sam, Kane, Andy, Grant & Ian for giving us their time and some really great knowledge. All the sessions were recorded and will be put online soon. We wrapped the day up with the 2012 FRA Awards presented by Ian Lewis. We will be publishing the winners very soon

Sunday was also a great day which saw some awesome battles, NST v TS2 would have made a perfect final in a UK champs! Predator was given its first full test and appeared to work perfectly... until the head motor and speedo blew

Overall it was a great weekend and we are already planning next years event with more talks for complete beginners and experts so I look forward to seeing you all next year!

The Robo Challenge team