Ugh - despite a huge head cold, we stumbled out to the Build Space determined to continue making the most of our week off, and get some building done. We didn't want to work with Milly - besides, the Alka Seltzer Cold medicine says not to operate heaving machinery, and Milly is 900 pounds - we we settled on the wiring for our ancient beetleweight Unlettered Understrapper 2.5. [More]

Now that I have Steel Stiletto in good shape, other than continuing to practice mutilating pieces of wood in preparation for doing same to actual bots at Motorama, it was time to face the unknown: building Malicious Mule from scratch. [More]

We decided last night that we had to do something about the garage Build Space as it had become too messy to work in, so this morning, before building we spent a couple of hours tidying up and generally getting organized. It's going to be a short build time, as we're going to the movies tonight - Yay Alamo Drafthouse! - so let's see what we achieved ... [More]

We've had a pretty productive week so far! We're making good progress on two of the beetles, have one 'bot done, and are really waiting for parts to show up to get cracking on the others we're planning on taking to Motorama 2012. While we wait for those parts we have some pieces we can make ourselves, and we still have the wiring to do on Unlettered Understrapper 2.5. [More]

This is turning into quite a productive week! Having made a solid start on Versatile Villain 0.9 we decided to gather up all the milling we need to do and take care of as much of it as possible. [More]

We received an email today from the Whyachi folks: our parts should be here Friday! In the meanwhile, we have a few 'bots to work on, including our newest beetle, Versatile Villain 0.9, which we made a start on yesterday. Let's see how far we can get today! [More]

Okay - after a fun Christmas Day (love my Kindle!) it was time to get serious about Motorama 2012. We have the week off this week, so looking forward to a getting a whole bunch of building done. As we're waiting for parts for the new 'bots, and didn't much fancy tackling the wiring on Unlettered Understrapper 2.5, we decided instead to spend some time working on the chassis for our other new beetleweight Versatile Villain 0.9. [More]

It's Boxing Day and so time to return to Steel Stiletto. Today we replaced the receiver and bound it to the radio. After firing up the Steel Stiletto for some test runs, we discovered everything operated in the reverse direction. [More]

Having successfully implemented the brushless weapon setup for our old beetleweight Unlettered Understrapper 2.0 the thing we have left to do is the piece we dislike the most: wiring! [More]

Wow - that was pretty zippy! We received a shipment of parts from HobbyKing this morning - not bad considering they only shipped - from Hong Kong - on Friday! The EMS shipping is definitely worth the extra few bucks, versus standard airmail! [More]

We found ourselves with a couple of hours to spare this evening, and we only have two things left to do with our old beetleweight Unlettered Understrapper 2.0, so we decided to see if we could cross something off the list. Given the choice of installing the weapon or the wiring, we went for the weapon ... [More]

There hasn't been much in the way of updates lately because there's been a whole lot of fun stuff going on at work, and by the time the weekends roll around it's time to catch up on useful things like sleep! [More]