Ok then, so its about time a did a update after a rather busy past 6 weeks.

First of.... AWS 42. Surprisingly, a fairly successful event with Mini E winning best newcomer and coming 2nd in the tag teams with Delirious (how we managed that I'm not entirely sure :P). He performed a bit pants in the main competition though. Started it off in the first fight by having random spasms which resulted in it driving itself off the side of the arena. Won its second fight against Kiwi and then lost its last fight against a much better robot (cant remember name SORRY). Oh, also did pretty well in the annihilator coming fourth.

Next we had Gloucester which was probably the most eventful show we have ever partaken in so far. We started off the day with high hopes for Endeavour after successfully managing the implant the new mixer...alas it was not successful. In the first fight we were having some steering issues, the drive kept on cutting out which resulted in it being practically un-drivable. As a result we got flipped 5 times, 3 times by Explosion and twice by the floor flipper. The second time on the floor flipper we got fired about 15 feet into the air, hitting the roof and landing right on the tip of the scoop. This bent it horrifically which was very surprising considering it structure and material. This however was not the only damaged caused. At first we thought we had burnt out a motor but once we had got it out of the arena and had an inspection, it turned out that it was only the gears slipping out of place which was easily resolved. We then hammered the scoop back into shape and we were ready to rock and roll again! In our second fight we were still having the cutting out problem but with less drastic out comes this time. After the event had finished we plonked Endeavour back into the arena to find out what the problem was. We discovered that when the stick was pushed fully to the diagonals the robot would cut out. We spoke to Dave W after the event and he believes that is something to do with the ESC's fail-safeing. So the plan other the next few months is to reprogram the ESC with the amended code

Before I do that though, has any one else got any ideas about what the problem might be?

So, that's about it for this year. Thanks to everyone who made our first year in combat robotics such a great one and we look forward to meeting up with you all again next year

P.S: Sorry for the wall of text