My friends and I have been meeting every 2 weeks at MakeICT to work on combat robot related things like building and designing. There have been a few people that have stop by to see what we are up to and have expressed some form of interest. If enough people are interested, I can make it a more formal thing and create a calendar event for anyone to come hang out and ask questions or even build one to get into the hobby.
Drop a post below if your interested.
Heck yeah dude! Thanks for posting! Count me in! So would the next one be in May then?
How deep into the programming did you guys get on Saturday?
I’m interested in checking it out sometime.
Probably Apr 27 or 28 depending on everyone’s schedule. There isn’t any programing in these because they are mostly manually driven. (PWM > ESC > Motor). We are hoping to get finish the arena also soon for some test fights.
Hmmm I am so tempted… I may have to give in 
Do we still have the sumobot arena?
The Electronics lab needs a steady group in it. If you need anything let me know
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Hmmm I am so tempted… I may have to give in
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We do still have the sumobot arena. It is either in Lounge or in Room 2. Do we want to move it to electronics?
We will be meeting this Sunday at 1 if you would like to throw it on the Calendar
Feel free to meet in the electronics room.
I’d go but I can’t. 
Hey all,
I will put this on the calendar as a single meeting. If we want to get fancy and keep track of things or advertise on meetup or add to the forum, we can enhance it later.
Added to the calendar in the Electronics room at 1pm on Sunday for an hour.
Have a look at it … I made up a description. If you want any changes, you can reply here or PM me.
That works. Thanks!
Thanks for putting it on the calendar.
MakeICT does request all robots be 3 laws safe, unless they are specifically designed to kill humans in which case they are illegal and can’t be at the space which is a different set of rules.
Yea I was disappointed too.
If the killbots have non-lethal implements while in the space it should be ok. They do have to have a pre-determined kill limit hard coded into them though, for safety.
We aren’t too that point yet… right now they just seek out and destroy other robots
Except Judith.
Can confirm the sumo bot stuff is in the Lounge, right of the ballista targets.
I sorta remember it but I don’t think it will work for what we are doing. We will be working on finishing an enclosed test box also on Sunday.
Thank you guys for letting Gretchen and me join you guys today! It was very cool to see where the battle bot hobby was these days and abojt the 150g and 1lb weight class robots you all have been working on!
It’d definitely be fun to see about hosting a battle bot events at the makerspace in the future (maybe for the June 8th event?)
