FRA UK Featherweight Championship 2014 hosted by RoboChallenge

**overkill** · 9th March 2014, 11:44

The base is actually 4.3mm titanium and the bearing blocks are 25mm thick 7075 aluminium. The Ti base is screwed down to my work bench with eight large wood screws but when that resonant vibration kicked in, I was just a bit worried! The front face of the bench is 25mm boxwood, one of the toughest hard woods in Australia and often used for things like rail bridges. Back when I knew a lot less about kinetic energy, I had an 'incident' where a bot punched a hole clean thru that 25mm of wood so now I am much more cautious. Everything was pre-tested apart from the final rev-up to 10K rpm.

**overkill** · 9th March 2014, 12:05

The base is actually 4.3mm titanium and the bearing blocks are 25mm thick 7075 aluminium. The Ti base is screwed down to my work bench with eight large wood screws but when that resonant vibration kicked in, I was just a bit worried! The front face of the bench is 25mm boxwood, one of the toughest hard woods in Australia and often used for things like rail bridges. Back when I knew a lot less about kinetic energy, I had an 'incident' where a bot punched a hole clean thru that 25mm of wood so now I am much more cautious. Everything was pre-tested apart from the final rev-up to 10K rpm

**james...venom** · 10th March 2014, 15:32

*SIGN UPS ARE NOW OPEN*

This year we have increased the number of entries to the championships to 50 however this may get extended again depending on our final feature layout. Last year all 40 spaces were gone in 2 days so please make sure you get your entries in soon. We wish you all the very best of luck and can't wait to see you all in the arena!

http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/cont...h-to-13th-2014

**harry hills** · 10th March 2014, 15:52

So we have to go for all four days? That sucks as I probably can't make it now and that's basically a year of planning thrown away. Much preferred the previous format. I'll see what I can do.

**razerdave** · 10th March 2014, 16:30

You should be able to pick a qualifying day that suits?

**james...venom** · 10th March 2014, 16:42

Hi Harry

Our 3 biggest feedbacks from the roboteers last year was to allow more spaces, let people compete on more days and to add an extra day so thats what we have done to try and accommodate as many people as possible including some exciting overseas entries. We fully appreciate this can make it more difficult with work commitments however we would try and help as much as possible. Already have our first entries signed up!