2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

[craig_colliass]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

I think we are close to E car park on the map looking at goggle maps, Grant has told me it is Gate 3 we are to go through the registration numbers of the cars will be given to the gatehouse so you should make sure you drive the right vehicle!

From what I can see the car park is not too far from the Hall, so if push comes to shove you could always lug the stuff across the road.

[psychostorm]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

Whirlpool? I think that design can have only 1 possible name. Good luck Ringpiece

ring piece vs boner?......

Boner & Ring piece. Sounds like a cop show.

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

Sounds like a whole other type of show to me

[grant_ploughbot]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

The Closest car park will be N2, not a long walk to hall 11.
I will confirm tomorrow but it looks like you may need to go round to carpark N12 to get a pass to be allowed through gate 3 to the loading area. It was origionally planned that the guys on the gate would let us through without the need for the passes, but it didnt seem to work today!

Just a word of warning - They will not let you through to the loading area after approximatly half past 8 - so to ensure that you dont need to carry all your equiptment i would recomend getting onsite early (7.45am?)

With regards to parking - It does appear that we can get exhibitor passes to allow roboteers out without the parking charge. Again I will confirm this tomorrow so please dont quote me on that (quote Alan ).

[xtreme]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

No progress pics as I havent made much progress. Iv started a few bits but nothing major is actually complete yet, Well I have a speed 900 mounted to a baseplate with 1 bracket. Still got to do another bracket for it. Nothing else I can do tonight. Ill have from roughly 5-6 pm when finish work untill about 4 am friday morning when we start packing the van. Plus we have to clear the van out at some point after iv finished work because it full of roofing gear (my mates a roofer and its his van)
Anyone else still have to do alot of work to get there robot ready

[craig_colliass]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

This link is a pdf of the site if this helps

http://www.thenec.co.uk/travel/Document ... te-map.pdf

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

Anyone else still have to do alot of work to get there robot ready

Yup
Took a day off work as I figured I'd need it, just about to print out all the event details, checklist, draw, directions etc and then I'll be making a start on things. So hopefully working 9-5 (don't start dancing) on robot stuff, although got to head into town for petrol, food, drinks and haircut at various points throughout the day, but should be enough time for everything

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

Also just noticed that Innovation First International is based quite close to the robot zone. Handy to know if my Victor breaks

[typhoon_driver]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

gotta fit some wheels to boner today if they arrive in time. Here's hoping! Otherwise I'm running on wheels that i made myself in a rush the other day

[PJ-27]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

Bitza is currently not running, yesterday while trying to fix the no movement problem the right stick on the Tx snapped off
And then the whole right side of the robot died completely, so got a few things to fix yet.......

[Laser]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

what kind of tx are you using and what did you do to snap it off?

[PJ-27]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

Using the Giant Cod Radio Link set. Its been nothing but trouble, partly because they're built very badly and we got ours 2nd hand....

The mechanism on the right stick seized up in vertical movement, so I removed the horizontal mechanism which freed it up (not sure why that helped but it did) then when I was testing it the other day the stick stick just snapped and dropped inside the controller. I opened it up to find it had snapped clean off it's shaft. I was just testing the drive, nothing vigorous. Got some super glue on it, hopefully that'll hold hold enough to last the competition!

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

Is your receiver still working correctly? I have a Giant Cod transmitter that I won't be using for this event (no RX to go with it) so I can bring it along and you can use that if you want?

[Laser]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

I use this it works fine http://www.galaxymodels.co.uk/detail.asp?id=26732

[PJ-27]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

The original Rx broke, so we had to buy a new one, might as well have bought a brand new set since it ended up costing us more. Even more so now the Tx is falling apart!

But if you could bring yours along that would be excellent! Thankyou very much.

It doesn't even have a Battery cover on the back! So if you see us scrambling around madly on the floor frantically picking up AA's mid fight that's why.....