Richmond Fighting Robot Club 3 (18th september 2010)

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Post by Andrew_Hibberd »

Just got in, lots of trafic in London.

Was a really fun event, anticide got chewed up horribly but there is time before the AWS to rebuild it. Thanks to Jack for one of the messiest events I have been to, there were bits of robots everywhere.
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Just to let everyone know I will upload a few videos i took at RFRC with my phone over the next few days on the following account... 3 are already up

http://www.youtube.com/user/TeamStare?feature=mhum
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Just got in and got my breath back, many thanks to Jack and family for hosting it and to everyone that was complimentary on my robots. It was a genuine pleasure to see everyone again and especially Bentley, Jonny and Harry who I'd either not met before or not talked to much before, all of you are what the industry refers to as 'top blokes' :)

It was a mixed event for me, more down than up...most of it was half-expected really, although I don't think anyone could have seen Spall surviving what it did :P but Jigsaw's sudden failure still hurts for some reason, it honestly baffles me why the servo failed so spectacularly so suddenly. I've ordered some replacements but maybe they don't like 7.4v much as I know Dave Weston's blown some?

Well done to Dan, Alasdair, Andy, Harry, Peter, Bentley and anyone else who won awards that I've forgotten ^_^
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Cheers fellow, It was a pleasure to meet everyone to, as to Jigsaw's failure does the servo necessarily need to be run from a direct voltage off the battery? why not just run it off its standard voltage? obviously it increases speed and torque but it must decrease the life span quite extensively?

Also does anyone know when all those videos will be uploaded, I cannot remember who was recording the battle but id like to view a couple :D
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Another great event it is nice to have the time to talk to people at these slightly less formal events especially as they are such a pleasant bunch. Thanks to Jack and family for all the hard work and refreshments and congratulations to Dan, Andrew and others whose names escape me (old age does that) who won events.
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well, i have just come back to life and would like to thank everybody who attended for their help, for bringing robots, accepting me as their rather laid back host and genrally being awesome throughout the whole event, was great to meet up with some of the new people, bentley, jake, harry and jonny are all nice guys and im sure they will be around for a while

special thanks to pete waller for all his help with pure evil, and helping out with the graphs, is much appreciated, also congratulations to dan for scooping all the prizes! lets hope you have plenty of silver polish...

so all in all i think the event went pretty well, was certainly destructive! sorry for everybody that lost a robot limb or two (or three) and videos/pictures should be up soon either on team orr's youtube channel or on the website

thanks to all
Jack

oh, and despite our best efforts spall decided to keep on working :o
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Here are the results for the nonspinner event unfortunately I didn't pick up the sheet for the spinner one.
group 1:
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/ ... SPING1.jpg
group 2:
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/ ... SPING2.jpg
finals:
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/ ... PINFIN.jpg
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just thought i should show you guys this, is so epic :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPTQnG-yCdI
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Post by bitternboy »

Is that a flea?!!!!! Against, Millitant? Well done coming out in one piece.
Actually, forget what size it is well done anyway... :D
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Post by joey_picus »

It weighed 27 grams :P it was disappointing actually, I was hoping that it would be totally destroyed but it came out working perfectly, will have to finish the job at Brighton...
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