Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

[james...venom]

Hi Guys

Well the UK Championships will certainly go down in history as an event be remembered, now its time for the FRA 2012 Featherweight Awards!

Robo Challenge will be hosting an open day which will be announced soon. As well as being the ceremony for our 2012 awards the open day will be open to everyone and is designed to get people inspired, learning and ready to build! We plan to invite guests to run mini seminars on everything from learning about low and high pressure pneumatics & how to build reliable spinners to tech check training and how to build an inspiring robot. Its going to be a fantastic day and we hope as many of you as possible will be able to make it. We also plan to have a few facilities available so people can bring their robots to test and get some help with any problems. More details will be coming shortly in the live events section.

Please find below the link to the 2012 FRA Awards. The nominees for each category are now available and have been compiled by the FRA and Robo Challenge for you to vote on. Voters must be a member of the FRA and each person gets one vote. Any multiple entries will be deleted. Good luck to all the robots that have been nominated and we do hope to see you at the Robo Challenge Open day.

[james...venom]

Re: Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

Opps here is the link http://robochallenge.co.uk/Events_and_E ... wards.html or head to the news section of the FRA website.

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

Wait, no 'Best Dancing Robot' category? I thought I had that one in the bag for sure!

[typhoon_driver]

Re: Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

I'll give you a run for your money in that one Jamie Got boner doing mad dancing at the yeovil event

[james...venom]

Re: Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

A sign up form will be opening as soon as we have the date announced. There will be a small fee per team which just helps cover a few costs such as CO2 etc. We are currently also organising the seminars too. Each will be approximately 30 mins long and we will be having breaks in between so people can do some testing with their robots and maybe a few whiteboard battles.

As I am organising the content are there any topics in particular anyone would like covering? for example understanding the different battery types and how to look after them or how to build a simple robot from scratch? please shoot over your ideas, this day will be design to help as many people possible and not just newcomers.

[typhoon_driver]

Re: Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

You got a rough date in mind?

[james...venom]

Re: Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

last bank holiday weekend of may or early june?

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

The weekend of the 2nd/3rd June would be good, as I'm off the 4th/5th as well thanks to ye olde Queenie. Not to influence you or anything

And Gary, you're on! The best I have to offer so far is 20 seconds into this fight, although Dave Taylor got some good footage of its boogy-woogies in a demo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-MpAQKCb44

[Danjr1]

Re: Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

any idea of the location?

[Eventorizon]

Re: Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

I would love to know how to make external buttons for transmitters through the trainer port... example, mounting another button on the bottom of your transmitter to act as a weapon kill/firing switch so you don't have to take your hands off the steering or weapon throttle in the case of a spinner

[james...venom]

Re: Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

Thats a good topic actually, I shall add it to the agenda. The location is most likely to be at our workshop here in Birmingham. Less than a mile of the M6 junction 6.

Ive had a couple of emails asking if people can bring Heavies. All weight classes are more than welcome, problems are problems which ever weight class you are in. Testing of heavies though is possible depending on the type of robot etc. We will do our best to cater for all. We are most likely to be putting up the inner arena and some screening to make testing possible. That way hopefully people can try new things and give the robot a quick run around.

[jonny]

Re: Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

How big is your workshop?

[james...venom]

Re: Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

Everything is relative i guess. We have a reasonable area where we can put up some pit tables in the main loading bay. In the stores room we will try and set up the inner arena which will double up as a stage for presentations and seminars. Im going to try and get some images to go on a big projector to help for the talks that are held so fingers crossed should make a good event. If there is plenty of support we will make it an annual or bi annual event/awards ceremony.

We already have 1 guest to talk about our first topic. I am passionate about learning, and its not just for new people. I too am hoping to learn a lot whilst I am there. Its also a good time for people who would like to learn how to tech check or learn how to use CO2 refill equipment or just get their robots running nicely.

I would also like to specifically invite all the nominated teams to come. It would be great to have everyone there for the awards. No one will know the results until on the day.

[xtreme]

Re: Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

Should be a nice event/get together. Hopefully a good amount of new roboteers can get to it, They should be able to learn alot from an event like this

[Laser]

Re: Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

Sounds ike a great idea James!
I will defo be going!