Reading Robot Club 9: Saturday 6th May 2006

olivers · Post by **olivers** » Fri May 05, 2006 5:27 pm

See everyone tomorrow. Got the arena ready and fixed the servo on Odyssey. Everything else looks to be mostly working.

Rhys · Post by **Rhys** » Fri May 05, 2006 6:41 pm

olivers wrote:See everyone tomorrow. Got the arena ready and fixed the servo on Odyssey. Everything else looks to be mostly working.

I wish I could say the same. You're all gonna laught at my walking spinner. It has virtually no control. The tread keep coming off TNT and Duff's wheels, and I think I've knackered the li-po in TNT. Plus I have to go on the stupid train, which means everything wll have to get crammed in, and they'll probably all get bent. Still, it wouldn't be an event if I wasn't badly prepared. I'm just trying to get some pity.

peterwaller · Post by **peterwaller** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:30 pm

Simon can you please add Defiant to the spinner contest I must have missed it off.

Andrew_Hibberd · Post by **Andrew_Hibberd** » Sat May 06, 2006 10:03 am

*Twiddles thumbs* must be the earlyist i have been ready for RRC 15mins before i set off.

Andrew_Hibberd · Post by **Andrew_Hibberd** » Sat May 06, 2006 4:09 pm

Guess i wasn't all that ready, apologies for slowing things down. Had a great time, many thanks to Simon.

josh · Post by **josh** » Sat May 06, 2006 4:37 pm

great event thanx Si

EpicentrE · Post by **EpicentrE** » Sat May 06, 2006 5:55 pm

Great event as always Simon, and gratz to Andrew

Batteries have ran out on my camera while transferring photos, so I won't be able to put them up till I find my charger!

Andrew_Hibberd · Post by **Andrew_Hibberd** » Sat May 06, 2006 6:23 pm

I have to say that Void and Randar where great as well as Pete armarda (thinking about it although you have an ants nest, there must be a collective term for ants. Wonder what it is? Although these are robotic ants so any ideas what we could use). TNT and Merge show a new level of lowness. Kwijebo out preformed itself today, will go back into its cage once more, fed 1g of polycarb a week.

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Sat May 06, 2006 9:17 pm

Thanks everyone for coming.

I need to rethink the competition format to get football back in.

Results at http://windisch.co.uk/robots/rrc/rrc09/results.htm
Photos at http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/2981342

I'll be posting out the DVDs on Monday.

Especial thanks go to Josh's mum, Debbie, and Marco's girlfriend for their hours of work. Please pass them on guys.

Simon

P.S. Anyone fancy 24th September 2006 for RRC10?

Marco Roberts · Post by **Marco Roberts** » Sun May 07, 2006 12:31 am

Yep have to say thanks for a great come back event.

Thanks to every one who still makes me feel welcome.
Great to see some new faces and also off course some old ones.

Liz says no problem for helping out, she really enjoyed it because she was worried she would be very bored.

Thanks simon for the great event. Dave for driving my impossible to drive ant when i needed it. Josh for being a good team mate during the super ant combat. And gratz to andrew for demonstranting a rather scary walker.

Im really happy how I did, driving and the ants wernt perfect but heck I know some aspects that can be improved and off course the standard of ants has improved since iv been gone.

Hope to see a few of u guys at the next event.