All the motors for our robot have finally arrived. Fellow builders looking at this post will be thinking that’s a lot of motors, that photo must include the spare motors. Well the photo does not include the spares our design really does use this many motors ! Why we use this many motors we… Read more »
The first parts we designed and sent to be milled have arrived, this created much excitement in the Blake robotics team. These first parts are part of our weapon.
The last few days have been spent cutting and notching all the tubular steel we are using for the main frame of the robot. There is a lot of tubing sections to prepare ready for welding. Most of our first day was spent clearing space in the workshop for the new band saw and… Read more »
Christmas is nearly here and a number of toys have arrived ready for us to get some serious robot building done over the Christmas holiday. We are planing on doing lots of the metal work needed for getting our chassis welded together in the new year. We also have a fair bit of soldering todo,… Read more »
Our second board (the board that runs the speed controllers) is back from the board house as is the power regulation boards Ed designed. Our first speed controller housing is also finished, and we are knocking up some removable links so we can do a test run of all our electronics together a some point… Read more »
The design for our second board which allows us to control our motors (amongst other things) is now done and with the board house, so we should have the new boards for Christmas.
We are designing a number of custom boards to run our robot, the first of which the interface to our radio modules was finished last week and sent to the board house for manufacturing. Today that first set boards arrived in the post, so we now have a number of surface mount and through hole… Read more »
We’ve now finalised the physical design of our robot, this means all CAD models are now complete. Our electronics design is not fully completed yet however. On the physical side of things team is now switching from design phase to production phase. All our big components which we can’t manufacture ourselves, such as shapes cut… Read more »
So we’ve started construction on our robot, while we won’t be complete in time for series 2, we will be ready for series 3.
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.