I've attended my first event!! Thank you to everyone at Doncaster yesterday who chatted to me and listened to my ramblings and helped me keep the thing running! I had the time of my life, utterly fantastic day! Apologies for bolting at the end, my brother and his friend had to get back for work and we'd read the email as the show is on 12-3:15, not one show is 12, the other is 3:15. So they ended up in a flap as I'd promised them we'd be back yada yada haha.

Robot got thrown all over the place in each of the 4 rumbles but with a bit of tightening up etc each time managed to keep getting back in the arena. I learnt heaps and bounds about stuff, and want to say a massive thank you to everyone for sharing all their info with me. I've got two general areas to sort, one being the spike is rubbish and ineffective, and the other being the robot is too slow / too low voltage. My solution is 2fold!

1. Bin the spike and make a dozer blade type thing for the front
2. Get a decent 18V/24V pack and some nice motors

Gonna have a week to mull it over and then set to. Thought I'd bung a pick up of the robot after yesterday all dented and battered haha.