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🇪🇺🤖⚔️📅 bbb.gd/events - December in European Robot Combat, wrapping up 2025! 🎁
4th LRFS ants in Loughborough 🇬🇧
4th Sheffield Roboteers ants in Sheffield 🇬🇧
4th QRFL Workshop ants in London 🇬🇧
6th Hacker Battlebots 450g in Belfast 🇬🇧
6th GROCS ants in Gloucester 🇬🇧

We hear news that there is a new Make/Hackspace starting up in March, Cambridgeshire associated with the folks at REMO remo.org.uk If you are looking for a Hackspace in the North of Cambridgeshire you may have a new place to check out...
#HackSpace #Makespace #Cambridgeshire #IsleOfEly

Settle down there satan...

Looks good to me.
you typically want to keep the SW node as small as possible, and keep the feedback resistors (R16 & R19) close to the FB pin.

I love you projects so much. Especially the JSWT mirror.

Used the colour picker to create this 8-bit Pacman image. :-) software status is good enough. Need to make a couple changes to the function keys, currently too easy to wipe your hard work with one key press. This Saturday I will be showing off this project and others at assemble. #giganticUnicorn

You can now watch back just the fights from Champs here: bbb.gd/champs
or the whole stream is available at bbb.gd/stream 🙂
📷Stuart Camp

The Bristol Bot Builders arena. Teams are lining up to the left for tech check.

Fig roll, with flipper arm in the up position, showing the rope-and-capstan spring cocking mechanism

Flesh coloured spring flipper robot Fig Roll, with some of the top armour off, showing a brushless servo motor for the flipper, and belt 4wd.

I'm at @bristolbotbuilders.com Champs today, supporting @pinski1.bsky.social and his new robot Fig Roll

Less than 48 hours until we kick off BBB Beetle Champs 2025 🏆
We will be livestreaming from 11am BST at bbb.gd/stream

Woman in electric blue jacket with head on a pile of books. "Up by Dr Lucy Rogers"

Squeee

BBB Beetle Champs 2025 has fully sold out! Thank you so much to everyone who's bought a ticket, we'll see you on Saturday.
If you can no longer make it you can use resale on headfirst to sell on your ticket to somebody on the waiting list.

As mentioned by @cannonfodder.bsky.social a while ago there is a very good #maker event in #Derby later this month. If you are near Derby on the 25th October head along to #Assemble at #DerbyMuseum
derbymuseums.org/assemble/

Check out the trophies for BBB Beetle Champs 2025!🏆
🎟️ Spectators: tickets are available at bbb.gd/tickets
🎮 Competitors: mobility due by end of Sunday to bbb.gd/pom

Anybody in the Stevenage area have available an accessible room or studio flat to rent?

My daughter is starting a PhD next week and the flat that we hoped she be in by now looks like it is going to fall through.

Thanks

Less than a month before we return for BBB Beetle Champs 2025, our biggest event of the year!
🎟️Spectators: tickets are available at bbb.gd/tickets
🎮Competitors: mobility is due by 5th Oct to bbb.gd/pom

They're super cool!

Cura, a 3d printing slicing software, has imported a model to be printed and placed it 30cm below the print bed.

Smashing there Cura...

Oh @ste5eu.bsky.social the joy of finding fellow #Makers on here, I thought you were mostly on mastodon.

Any more #Makers hello?

BBB Beetle Champs 2025 18th Oct, St Michaels Center, Bristol.

🎮Competitors: Lottery sign ups tomorrow (Weds 3rd Sep) 7-8pm at bbb.gd/champs

🎟️Spectators: audience tickets are available now at bbb.gd/tickets

@oshwassociation.bsky.social your definition page 404s
oshwa.org/definition/

Potton Pi & Pints Raspberry Jam - 1st November 2025 Fancy doing some electronics/computing stuff in a relaxed, social atmosphere? Fancy a chat with fellow geeky-type people?

If you'd like to pre-register for Potton Pi and Pints on Saturday, 1st November, please head over to Eventbrite and grab a free ticket. #raspberrypi #raspberryjam #bedfordshire #cambridgeshire #potton
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/potton-pi-...

Actually, that driver board uses the BTS7960 which has a PMOS for the high side switching, so disregard that. It ought to be able to do 100% duty

Most MOSFET half-bridges use a bootstrap capacitor to generate the Vin+Vgate and for that to work they can never be 100% high, always need a couple of percent low so the cap can charge. If you want 100% then you'll need a dedicated isolated supply for each half-bridge.

Is your dog a schnorkie? We have a schnorkie and he looks the same!

🇪🇺🤖⚔️📅 bbb.gd/events - August in European Robot Combat:
2nd Seaside Showdown sportsman ants in Felixstowe 🇬🇧
2nd Robosota ants & 450g in Helsinki 🇫🇮
2-3rd Robot Rebellion beetles in Colchester 🇬🇧
6th Hacker Battlebots 450g in Belfast 🇬🇧
9th Antweight World Series ants in Gainsborough 🇬🇧

We are finally ready to announce that EMF 2026 will happen on July 16-19, 2026, at Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire.

Expect more updates soon as we start spinning up the organisation again.

YouTube video by Joe Brown BBB x LHG Summer Showdown 2025 - All Fights - Bristol Bot Builders Beetleweight Combat Robots

All the fights from Saturday with timestamps. Thanks to the roboteers for all the fun and chaos, and our wonderful crew for setup & packdown! youtu.be/PaPSmDSf7Sw

Went to a pub in Liverpool yesterday to catch up with friends and watch robot fights. God I've missed this. Hopefully will be back to competing very soon
#robots #battlebots #robotwars

🇪🇺🤖⚔️📅 bbb.gd/events - July in European Robot Combat:
5-6th Merseyside Robot Fighting ants & beetles in Liverpool 🇬🇧
12th Bristol Bot Builders pub beetles in Bristol 🇬🇧
13th Rock & Robots sportsman ants in London 🇬🇧
19th July CAT sportsman ants in Leighton Buzzard 🇬🇧