Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

[calumco]

Re: Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

a realy good get together and those who didnt go missed out! Fought little spinner and won - only running at quarter power thou but the high light of the weekend for me was taking on the uk champion with TS2 and winning! One of the most nerve wrecking and by far the best fight ive had in the 4 years ive been doing this. Sure there will be a video up soon, all credit to nst too- that robot hits hard, even thou ts2 was still running it had split my 22mm nylon bulkead clean in 2. Realy looking forward to the champs now!

[james...venom]

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Wow what a weekend!

Firstly can I say thank you very much to every one who cameto the Robo Challenge Open Day and I certainly hope you all enjoyed the event. Saturday was fantastic with brilliant talks, all of which were very enlightening.

Sam Smith gave us a fantastic insight into every stage of reliability when building a spinner. Really well presented and lots of great little tips. We can see why NST is such a good machine.

Kane Aston produce a great talk on pneumatics including a description of all the parts along with some handy tips he uses for Behemoth in making your system leak free.

Andy from Optifuel put on a super talk about Lithium batteries and really cleared the air with facts about the battery technology and their safety. We then saw what happens to lipos on the discharge rig and also what happens when Lipos are shorted or punctured. Very enlightening.

Ian Lewis gave us a fantastic insight into creating an inspiring machine. His insights into how team Razer thought about Robot Wars and how they tackled their challenges was very personal and really helped open our eyes to creating machines that will fulfill our own goal and inspire audiences. A really nice way to complete our 4 sessions.

Thank you very much to Sam, Kane, Andy, Grant & Ian for giving us their time and some really great knowledge. All the sessions were recorded and will be put online soon. We wrapped the day up with the 2012 FRA Awards presented by Ian Lewis. We will be publishing the winners very soon

Sunday was also a great day which saw some awesome battles, NST v TS2 would have made a perfect final in a UK champs! Predator was given its first full test and appeared to work perfectly... until the head motor and speedo blew

Overall it was a great weekend and we are already planning next years event with more talks for complete beginners and experts so I look forward to seeing you all next year!

The Robo Challenge team

[MrPK]

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Attended on the sunday - good to meet up with a few old faces ive not seen for about 7 years! Met some new people (to me at least) all very friendly and inspiring.
Thanks to everyone - im sure ill be seeing you all again later in the year, hopefully with something to show you.

[james...venom]

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Was great to meet you. Looking forward to seeing what you build!

Has anyone got a video of Predator?

[Mouldy]

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Great event guys, looking forward to seeing those videos Jarvis/Kane!

I only took a few random ones which I'll stick on my YouTube.

[MrPK]

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I think Kane took some footage of Predator on his bridge cam but there was a go-pro in the corner but not sure if it was on.

[PJ-27]

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Missed out

Spotted this on Mouldy's YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeAlEomkuWw

[PJ-27]

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[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

Does that mean TS2 is the No.1 featherweight in the country now?

[mattsdragons]

Re: Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

Does that mean TS2 is the No.1 featherweight in the country now?

Calum wishes

[james...venom]

Re: Robo Challenge Open Day & FRA FW Awards 2012

Some awesome battles! Results of the FRA awards coming up!

[sam_smith]

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A big thanks to the Robo-challenge guys for putting on this great event. I really enjoyed the relaxed weekend catching up with teams, watching the workshops and some testing/battle.

Congratulations to the award winning teams, especially team Big nipper who received a few awards

NST definitely made the most of having the full arena set up and got some good spinner testing in. I was very pleased with a couple of mods, including the new high power solid state relay and new improved motor/gearbox unit.

Great battle on the Sunday evening with TS2, look forward to seeing the video of that one. Respect to Calum for challenging NST to a full combat battle when not in a competition. Both machines made some good impacts and kept on going. Hope it doesn't take too much fixing :P.

Gutted I just missed Predator spinning up, has anyone got a video? Hope you get the brushless all sorted out soon enough James

[james...venom]

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That battle was crazy! Your solid state relay looked seriously good. Was it warm after that battle with the constant pounding?

Stripped e motor down and it appears the windings came loose to the front plate, they rotated and shorted. Has anyone seen this happen before?

[calumco]

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Video off my phone of the fight, did a bit of super cool editing too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu3QozJtgbA

the hit 34 seconds in gave me the real damage, split my left bulkhead in half and damaged the pully on the beater then part of the hardox armour under the robot near a wheel broke free which made it hard to drive in a straight line cause it was dragging on the floor - if NST didn't fly otta I would have probabily lost lol

be good to have a rematch at the champs

[RogueTwoRobots]

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You running it on a higher voltage now Calum? It seems a lot faster than at the champs and you were getting some gyro dancing too
The beater's looking really good as well; I need to get a front hardox wedge like yours made for Drumroll.