August 7, 2001

Blew my new Vaio! went to SF

Well this update has been a long time coming to say the least! Basically I spilt a hot cup of tea all over my Vaio :( and sent it off for repair to Sony. After 3 months I have it and my Dreamweaver software back in my hands mmm Sony are not that speedy then!

Anyway what has happened to us in the interim. A lot! We went to battlebots in San Francisco for a start back at the end of May. This was as usual for us a big rush job although we managed to get it all organised and got over there OK having taken the bot with us on the plane :) Then the fun started.

Oh we got to the arena OK and we got the bot assembled OK but would it drive would it hell! Anyway after some frantic research we traced the fault to both the receivers we were using. They both seemed to be fried god knows how but they were dead. No probs lets just ring John Read and get him to bring some over with him when he comes on the Wednesday. Hurrah john is in and he is going to bring some with him phewwwww. Now we were scheduled to fight on the Friday so john arrives and I set about wiring in the new receivers on the Thursday morning.

At this point with soldering iron in hand one of the organisers comes over and says Executioner on in 20 mins OK! No its not OK like really not bloody OK. 20 mins or your out, OK we will make it! sweat. Then we are in the arena with a bodged in receiver and gaffa tape everywhere. 3 2 1 dead were out great. 11000 miles and that's it. So off back to pits to commit hari kari take the bodyshell off and there it is battery lead swinging in the wind. In our haste Ian had forgotten to connect the battery lead :( oh well wont make that mistake again. So we spent the rest of the week testing and thinking about all the changes to make to make it better (there were a lot) to say the least.

I hate Robots!

Mark...

Posted by Mark at August 7, 2001 2:44 PM

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