Stats 

Everyone loves stats, so we thought we would share some of the stats about the building process of the robot.

Building the robot has so far consumed

  • 4 x meters of M4 threaded rod
  • 160 x M4 nuts
  • 168 x M4 washers
  • 32 x M4 Allen bolts
  • 3 x meters M10 threaded rod
  • 10 x M10 nuts
  • 12 x M10 thin nuts
  • 6 x meters 10mm tubing
  • 10 x metres of thick wall 16mm t45 steel tubing
  • 19 x meters of thin wall 16mm t45 steel tubing
  • 1 x meter 20mm steel tubing
  • 24 x M8 bolts
  • 24 x M8 nuts
  • 12 x M8 nuts thin
  • 2 x meters M8 threaded rod
  • 9 x miles of nylon filament
  • 36 x Ring ball bearings
  • 4 x Tapered roller bearing
  • 48 x Transfer bearings
  • 2 x litres 2 Part polyurethane foam
  • 60 x pints of Neepsend Blonde
  • 25 x pints of Porter
  • 36 x bottles of Badger’s Golden Glory
  • 6 x bottles London Pride Porter
  • 1 x tub of bearing grease
  • 3 x litres Liquid rubber
  • 3 x bottles Hobgoblin Wychwood
  • 4 x bottles Badger’s Blandford Flyer
  • 0 x pints of Larger (we have some taste)
  • 1 x Can of Guinness (the Guinness was not drunk, we just needed thin metal for a shim, nobody wanted the contents)
  • 1.5 x Pigs (mostly in the form of pork scratching and pork pies).
  • 6 x  packets of milliput
  • 6 x Brushless drive motors
  • 2 x Brushless weapons motors
  • 20 x Pulleys
  • 16 x Individual Christmas cakes (thanks Barbara)
  • 6 x Scones (thanks Sarah)
  • 2 x Tubs of red pepper hummus (mostly consumed by Arthur, thanks Terry)
  • 2 x Lemon Cakes (thanks Sarah)
  • 3 x Nomex fabric 1m lengths
  • 3 x Spacer fabric 1m lengths
  • 2 x Velctro 1m lengths
  • 302 x Cups of breakfast tea
  • 96 x Cups of Redbush tea
  • 6 x Tubes of 2 part epoxy glue
  • 2 x Raspberry Pi’s (sadly not the yummy kind)
  • 3 x SD card
  • 1 x Xbox Controller
  • 5 x Plasters (Score for the team, Mike 1, Ben 0, John 0, Edd 0, Terry 4)

Stuff destroyed

  • 9 x Drill bits
  • 2 x Saw blades
  • 1 x Cheap and nasty speed control (burnt out in testing)
  • 1 x SD card
  • 1 x Filament latch for 3d printer (luckily gluing it back together work long enough to print its own replacement).
  • 5 x Hole cutters 16mm