1. Knowledge is easy to pick up nearly everyone at live events will give you new little tips and ideas. Also there is a fairly sized MSN robot community willing to help most of the time.

2. Well this is a matter of choice because the people with the workshops mainly could not live without them but as far as tools used when building Conundrum Mk1 it came down to a work mate, jigsaw and drill thats basically all we have used.

3. Money depends on your components even a featherweight pusher can be anything from £50 right up to £1000 and probably higher.

Chris - http://www.featherweights.org/forum