RobotWars101

1. I learnt not to drive straight at a spinner.

I disagree.

2. I also learnt I'll have to shout submit louder next time.

Nah, i should pay more attention to the outside of the arena as well as the inside. Mea Culpa.

Cant you work with host headers? that would solve the problem right there and then.

Port 8008 is closed for us in the company network (even for me), so unfortunatly i wont be able to see the progress on this.

Well im back under the living as well as due to a mixup my hotel for the saturdaynight turned out to be overbooked i decided on a night ferry back to the mainland. Thanks to everyone who made this event possible, and i will be there again if work allows it. Big congrats to Simon. I really enjoyed ou...

Hi there and welcome. Not having built these myself (our ants are not as heavy as those in the US), it all looks pretty starightforward to me. with the electronics you get a description of what goes where, and its up to you to find a good spot for it all. Thats what building a robot is all about. Oh...

I was building Heavyweight robots for years and decided that it was about time i got a robot in all existing active weight classes. So now i have a feather, 3 heavies, and 1.5 ants. Working on a Raptor (6kg) and a sozbot (450 gram).

The ferry and the hotel are booked, Katjuscha will be there.

Apart from the roboteering of course: I collect remote controlled toys. Boats, cars, helicopters, planes, tanks, robots, flying saucers, you name it. Besides that i try to learn as much as i can about the second world war. I visited many places in europe to find more information, go to musea, been t...

Is that also the case if the components you use have been tested individually before?

For me, option 2 sounds like the best option, although i can see te reasoning behind the choice for option 1. but having the receiver built in on the board, and provided there is still a channel left to control a 3d servo or ESC, would eleminate another point of failure, the link between receiver an...