London Expo 28th + 29th October

peterwaller · Post by **peterwaller** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:10 pm

Team Name : Team Termite

Dates attending: Sunday 29th October

Team Captain : Peter Waller

Robots : Assuming they have survived the WS
Militant Ant
Mutant Ant
CombatAnt Ant
Defiant Ant
Dominant Ant
Fleabite Flea
Insumountable Mini Sumo

email : peter@antweightwars.co.uk

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:17 pm

Sorry it's late... benn on holiday.

Team Name: Exterminate
Dates attending: Sun 29th Oct
Team Captain: Simon Windisch
Team Member:Nathan Windisch
Robots Ants
contact email simon@windich.co.uk

olivers · Post by **olivers** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:06 am

I will most likely be going one day. It will be as a spectator though although I might bring some ants along.

http://www.londonexpo.com/starguests.shtml

This shows the star guests. Once they announce some more guests will dictate which day I go. Last time they had loads of famous people including 5 or 6 from 24, loads from Star Trek and other misc ones.

ewan · Post by **ewan** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 5:40 pm

Let me know if you're still open for applications - I might be able to bring an ant and my feather along on Sunday on the way down from an XFM event.

If you are please let me know the arrangements etc.

Thanks

Marco Roberts · Post by **Marco Roberts** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:34 pm

hmmm cheaky its fine ewen il add u to the list.
Im speaking to kain tonight il let u all know what is said.

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:06 pm

BTW I have just about perfected my "pay to play" remote control system. It's a black box with a joystick on a switch on it to drive or flip the robot.

No transmitter to break or aerial to bend or poke in people's eyes.

Do you think I could run a Futaba Skysport from a 12v car battery? I know it's expecting 9.6v (perhaps even more) do you think 12V would break it? If it wouldn't, then I could leave it on all day, and just hide the transmitter under the table.

Simon

olivers · Post by **olivers** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:14 pm

HobbyStores sell a charger for about ?25 that takes a 12V supply and can charge a Tx. At a previous AWS someone had one.

My Tx charger gives 10.5V output. Lastly you have to bear in mind 12V batteries give out more than 12V.

Marco Roberts · Post by **Marco Roberts** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:13 am

Ok then entries are now closed.
Thanks for all the people signed up, looks to be a busy sunday.
Good to see a lot of interest and it looks like we are going to be having over 20 ant enteries including me and ants.
I will start designing my "pay to play" system over the next week.
It will run on 4aa ni cad's.
Should run for a long time, if not then it should run long enough.
Il soon be sending you an email simon if I could buy several copies of the rrc and il mix up a video we a few good fights with a constant reference to buy the full dvd's off you. Since I will be building the pay to play ants I might make a little video of how i did it so any one who is really interested can take a look at it as well.
Any hows im just frowing things in the air. And since this thing is anual i might invest into a london excel champion

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:13 am

Hi Marco,

Is there any way I could just send you the files over the internet?

It'll be bi-annual and a competition sounds like a good idea, but it might get in the way of just keeping the robots running and keeping the crowd interested?

Anyway, good work. Thanks for doing all this

Simon

Marco Roberts · Post by **Marco Roberts** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:12 am

I think the best adress if you would like to send em is this one
M.A.Roberts1@Bradford.ac.uk
Its the uni one and i am guessing they expect large files considering us graphics people sending each other out work.
Im not too sure what ur sending simon, a set few of ur favourite rrc fights?