This is it: our last day before we have to pack up the Botmobile and hit the road to Motorama. We have two unfinished 'bots: the featherweight Formidable Fustigator 2.0 and the sportsman Palindrome30. The featherweight is closest to being completed, so that's where we'll concentrate today. [More]

Okay - this is way too cool! Jerome Miles suggested we take a look at CamBam, which is a tool that takes a CAD drawing and allows you to specify what you want to do to the part with the mill, then it automatically generates the G-Code for you! How neat is that?? We created a DXF of the chassis base... [More]

With the drill press still out of commission, we're falling a little behind in our build schedule, but we found a few other things to be getting on with today, including a non-'bot-related job for a friend at work. [More]

Unfortunately we're at the end of our Christmas holiday, and still suffering from a horrendous cold, but we wanted to see whether we could get the New Year off to a productive start none-the-less. We elected to see whether we could get our hobbyweight drumbot to a driveable state. [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]

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]

16 New Hyundai 18V drills, snagged from eBay for $126 inluding shipping.
12 are earmarked for CyberScorpion 0.9, and three may go in Formidable Fustigator 2.0, so yes - we can definitely put these to good use! [More]

Hmm ... after re-reading the manual for the Spektrum DX6i, it says the receiver may fail to bind if the transmitter is too close to the receiver ... we'll give those receivers another go tomorrow evening then!

The last version of Poor Punctuation had a pretty major flaw - well - two flaws really: (1) It was pretty ineffective in the weapon category; and (2) it wasn't invertible, and flipped over frequently. With those issues in mind, we set about redesigning the antweight. [More]

We're well into Robot-Mode here at Team Radicus, and are itching to get the fleet built up for Motorama 2012 in February. We've got a lot of neat ideas we want to build, but before we can get going on that we need a place to build. [More]

So, we've been debating building a walker for the Sportsman Class at Motorama for the last couple of years. Actually, we've dreamed of building a walker since roughly 2001, but better late than never! [More]

While snacking at lunch time I started playing with a new program I downloaded from WoodGears.ca called Gear Template Generator. It took a couple of minutes to figure out the interface, but within moments I'd come up with this: [More]

It's been a while since we turned our attention to the 'bot stuff ... in fact we haven't even unpacked from Motorama, eight months ago! But now that the temperatures are finally out of the triple digits, it's time to plan on the garage's Build Space's productions over the next four months. [More]