Rampaging Chariots guild

[john]

Rampaging Chariots guild

i wonna do this

gary , could a few of us out of the FRA do this do u think?

im sure i could find a few people?

[typhoon_driver]

Rampaging Chariots guild

John,

It would be more productive if a number of roboteers took the project to a local school or young engineers club and helped them to build one of the machines.

Believe me, a roboteer could have one of these things moving in less than a day. The challenge is not in building it but instead in giving kids and teenagers an idea of what engineering is about and to consider it as a future career. That is why SELEX were so interested in getting involved in a big way.

As I said earlier feel free to get in contact with the guild and ask them directly. I can only voice what I think which may not be the same line that they take.

[typhoon_driver]

Re: Rampaging Chariots guild

Helped out with the 2011 competition yesterday. Fantastic event with some great robots taking part (around 45 in total) getting nearly 200 teenagers interested in engineering and building bots.

I'm guessing there will be an event update on the rampaging chariots website soon enough.

[RogueTwoRobots]

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When I re-built the mini Rover back in February or so, I remember thinking about asking them if I could take it along to this year's competition along with the feathers as a bit of promotion for the RL event next week, but clearly I completely forgot about it! Just as well, as I raided Rover for some drill motors a couple of months ago

[RogueTwoRobots]

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Tony and I popped along to the 2012 Games today. A very well-organsied and tightly-run event with around 45 robots in attendance. The quality of the majority of the kits was superb, as well as all the individual customisations. The Guild and Selex have got a great thing going on here for the promotion of engineering and technology and hopefully it'll continue for many years.

We went along to display some of our robots with the main intentions being to generate interest in the Robots Live event at East Fortune next weekend, hopefully encourage some of the Chariots teams to expand into featherweight combat and just help promote engineering in general. This was our stall set out on the 1st floor gallery. Plenty of robots!



Each robot had an information card to go with it detailing the components and specifications, and people were free to walk about them and have a look at the insides.

Scar, Drumroll, Reaver, Rover and Cicatrix:



Eric, Eric Jr, Maxus Jr, Carcinus, Flatulence and Kiss My Asimov:



Typhoon 2's very slick display area:



The Assault Course:



I don't want to fill the thread up with too many pictures, so the rest can be found here: http://s31.photobucket.com/albums/c367/ ... ts%202012/

So hopefully we'll see a few faces at East Fortune next weekend. Not sure how many of them were interested in moving into combat, or if they'll find their way here. We didn't have any FRA cards to hand out or web links; maybe something worth adding to the info cards for next time. But there were a few folk who didn't realise that combat was still going on after Robot Wars so with any luck, it'll have re-ignited interest for a few people

[Anttazz]

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So many people were saying I thought that after it finished on TV all activity ceased. I suppose in Scotland it pretty much has but its something we've got to look at addressing to bring more people into the sport and make events up here more worthwhile. Would happily go back to it and any similar events being held in our locale, had great fun .

Oh, and Jamie forgot to add in his last post, for each new face next weekend we're on 25% a ticket, remember mentioning that to us Alan??? :wink:

[firefly1]

I saw them at the EXEL centre(I think thats how its spelt) at the big bang fair with a mini assault course