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July 07, 2004
Robowars Australia!
Last weekend I visited Maryong in Western Sydney to visit the backyard Sydney Robowars stadium! These are “featherweight” radio-controlled robots of under twelve kilograms that fight each other in a metal garage converted into a stadium, complete with bullet-proof plastic viewing wall and video cameras.
The robots can be viewed at http://robowars.org/robots.html
There were teams from Queensland, and Victoria as well as the locals. They were a very friendly, open and interesting bunch of enthusiasts, with many family teams.
I’ll post some photos up when the film comes back.
They meet every six weeks, and have a lot of fun.
About the author: Ian Woolf lives in Sydney, has a degree in Applied Physics, worked as a solar astronomer, software engineer, systems programmer, webmaster, Cisco CCNA tutor, Computational Theory lecturer, and subject coordinator; while changing his career to professional writing and broadcasting. Listen to Ian on the Discovery science show on radio 2SER 107.3Fm Mondays at 9am in Sydney or streaming audio on www.2ser.com, or listen to the Discovery sound archives.
Posted by iwoolf at July 7, 2004 01:41 AM | TrackBackAbout time I commented, ROBOT WARS that sounds sooooo fun are you going to the next one? If so mind if SLy and me tag along. I love robot wars I tried to get my boss to do Robot WARs as a team building exercise but we are going ten pin bowling instead arrr.
You do all the cool stuff
-Lynne
Posted by: Wintersheart at July 8, 2004 01:57 PMGreat to see my robot on your page! ‘Scoopy Doo’ is her name. As the only female combat robotics operator in Australia - my Bot and l would love to encourage other women to get involved. Victoria is currently the mainstage for public events, so if your in town feel free to contact me for a chat and further info. Email Mel @ www.robowars.org
Posted by: Mel at July 27, 2004 02:42 PMAs one of the QLD teams who has travelled to VIC and NSW, I‘d like to see as many newcomers as possible!
Good to see you do your rounds Mel ;)
-Aaron
Posted by: Aaron at September 3, 2004 09:09 PMglad to hear you like it!
i was there with my little bot cobra, you probably saw it getting busted up pretty severly hehe.
head over to www.robowars.org/forum for info on the next one. should be fun!
- regards Glen Rose
Posted by: Glen at September 3, 2004 09:13 PMwell my bot TSE the little wedge with wheels out the top and botom nd the little key cutting blade that done nothing but scratch aarons bot… i think and it also was the one that lost every time due to little things one loss was to scoopy up there and it wont be long mel before there is a second female on the sceen all my sis needs now is a bot… nag nag nag spose i better get onto it eay lol
Posted by: Wayde at September 4, 2004 02:24 AM