RobotWars101

Looks good, although sometimes I find the red text on a dark background a bit difficult to read. Thanks for the link to my site by the way, I'll add one to yours too next time I update mine

http://www.wix.com/alasdairrob/Team-Payback-Robotics works just fine

I would really go for something like Wordpress.com, it will do everything you need for your site and will generally do it better than most other free site creators out there... Wordpress used to be just for blogs, now its good for normal websites too.

Just seen this... http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_ne ... 539525.stm

A solution for bad drivers? Make your opponent smell and your robot will do the rest

Definitely put build diaries on there, I remember when I first started the person who built Close Shave way back when Ants first began had an excellent one that really got me interested in building my own. Sadly the Wayback Machine hasn't archived it particularly well. I re-did my website recently t...

There is a post on the FRA forum from Robot Arenas Ltd, with their take on it. http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/forum/v ... 528#p99528

It's sad, but I doubt it would have been used again anyway, the cost would make it unfeasible for most people.

I believe the BattleRatz kits from Roaming Robots use a spring powered flipper in the high end model don't they? I haven't looked into it so I have no idea if the concept used in the Ratz could be scaled down to ant size but from the videos it seems pretty effective.

Happy New Year

Just to confirm it seems to work fine in OOo 3.1 on Mac OS X.

OK thanks. I'm getting new batteries as well... decided I might as well go the whole hog in the end so brushless motor and controller, new batteries and 2.4ghz system will all be on order soon! I figured if I get a big enough pile of parts that I don't want taking up valuable shelf space in my room ...