The Blake Robotics Society

Posted on 7th October 2016 by admin under Front Page Gallery

We are a group who are currently building a robot to compete in robot wars.  Our design is being kept under-wraps until Robot Wars takes place as we don’t want to post any spoilers.

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A sense of balance

Those who watched the video of our weapons test, would have noticed the robot wobbled as the blade span up. This is because we had not balanced the blade, i.e. one half of the blade had more mass that the other half. This meant we had to balance the blade (add some weight to one… Read more »

Posted on 20th October 2017 by

Weapon test

We’ve been field testing our weapon.  This is the first time we’ve spun the blade up using the motors, all in all a successful test.  With only small tweaks needed to get it running nice and smoothly.  More videos to follow.

Posted on 4th October 2017 by

LED Board

We made a little LED driver board for doing our atmospheric lighting.  It’s got a little ATtiny on-board that handles all the effects like fade in and out.  We can control it over I2C from our Pi to change which effect it’s currently running.  If you want to check it out and make your own… Read more »

Posted on 14th April 2017 by

Pi motor control tutorial

We’ve added a tutorial on controlling a motor with a Raspberry Pi.   We hope some people find it interesting and useful.

Posted on 11th April 2017 by

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