The Roaming Robots Barnsley event was the first event of the year and the start of the 2010 UK championships. We went to the event with neither Hydra or Dantomkia finished in the hope that we would be able to pick up a few points. We didn’t think any of the robots there could particularly damage us so we decided to risk putting in two unfinished robots.
Well this was the first time out for the battleratz at the Roaming Robots Barnsley event. It was a bit hectic for us because Paul and Colin weren’t there so it was hard to fit in but we thoroughly enjoyed it.
First up was the assault course which Luke decided to try something different. We noticed that there was not enough ground clearance at the front so Luke decided to drive up it backwards and then turn round. Bad idea as it turn out. The best way seems to be to fire the flipper as you get to it and then drive straight over.
The Roaming Robots best bits video for Portsmouth has now been released…………..enjoy
Well after a long break over the summer we were off to Protsmouth on 4th October. We had been told about a lot of changes to the arena and were quite nervous about these. Hydra has been dogged with problems this year and SMIDSY’s broken gear box at RIAT had been repaired with parts we were expecting to fail so we weren’t really expecting a successful event. As it is now mathematically impossible for Hydra to qualify for the UK championships we had decided that this was very much a testing event.
That changed the moment we signed up for the first fight, a whiteboard between Hydra, Thor and Wierd Alice…………. (more…)
After what seemed like far too little time to prepare after Guildford we arrived at RAF Fairford on the Friday and unloaded the robots. We were a bit nervous because the new tent had seemed a bit small in the shop but when it was up (with a bit of help from Mario) it turned out you could easily seat twelve for dinner in the main living area. (more…)
The Roaming Robots best bits video has now been released for Guildford 2009 and is available on You Tube. Nice to see Hydra featured a lot and SMIDSY’s bit we wont say too much more about……………..
The Roaming Robots Event at Guildford 2009 was an event we were really lloking forward to. After a lot of hard work rebuilding the body work of SMIDSY it was finally ready to run. Wheely Big Cheese would be on display for the first time and Hydra had had some more improvement work to see if we could get rid of some of the bugs which have plagued this robot this year.
We were expecting this event to have an element of both excitement and dissapointment and I have to say it didn’t dissapoint!!