EXR Brentwood 2023
I've decided to either do full weekends camping or not at all for these events which require me to be on the road by 5am and this was one of them. Got to the hall pretty early-ish and was setup. After a bit of faff with the tech check where the robot just wasn't ready, Jibril went in and fought all three matches that it was in.

The pre-show thing... I get the point of it and the quality of my robot just meant it wasn't ready for prime time but the fact is, I felt a little bit sidelined. With no FWs at the event either, whilst I am grateful for the support of EXR despite the low numbers of MWs, I dunno, it felt a bit offputting. I am hoping RL isn't going to be the same but I won't know until later on in the year. Hopefully I can prove that my machines can still rumble with the HWs.

Jibril fought the three matches but in its last fight, after going through an extensive bit of rework to get the axe to work properly, it stripped its gears. I am unsure as to how bad it is but thinking it over, I am going to rebuild the carrier in time for Newcastle and take the chance to retime the axe using the gears from Azriel. The current carrier I am sure is a bit skewed and as was put to me, HDPE isn't good for precision engineering like this. Since I am still bereft of my full suite of tools, I'll remake it out of Polycarbonate and place the gears differently to lower the overall height of the robot.

I had to miss Guildford as the car's exhaust blew up the day before the event so wasn't able to get it mended in time.

Kaizen
The new 750x500mm base plate is here, motor mounts are here. I have the ESCs and motors but no wheels or gears yet. I may very well just end up taking the parts to Newcastle and working on it there but we'll see. The CAD design is ready and specced up, just a case of ordering the parts now.

What I don't want to do is comprimise and fight a half finished robot. I might have it done for the RL events.