My brother sent me a messege saying that the Idea's Festival are now wanting an arena and full combat demonstration at the launch in 2 weeks. I have no more details other then that. We are going to have a meeting with them tomorrow to discuss how this will be possible and when it will be done.

We had a meeting with a couple of the Ideas Festival organisers this afternoon.
It is all still going ahead as planed. They will be buying an arena and donating it to our club after they are done with it.
There will also be an official program launch in 2 weeks (Wednesday 22 October) at South Bank and we have been asked to give a display. The plan is for no weapon pushy matches done inside an "arena" made of road barriers. Several senior government officials will be there so it needs to look good.
So who is available Wednesday morning in 2 weeks for a 15 minute display? 10am start.
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Secretary of the Queensland Robotics Sports Club inc.

Awesome work guys
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They say that he crossed the fine line, from insanity to genius.

What about lifter 's i could bring sproing down iff arron is going but not sure if i would come on my own How many bots do they need for a showing ? might be able to resurect a few here with sla's and older conteolers iff needed

mm just re read the post wed morning might not be a good time for me as im not sure of my schedual at the moment keep us posted on how many bots you expect and mabe i can put a few together and send them down charged with controlers if some one is going that way

I will lend you Marauder if you like, but it sucks as a pushy bot. I can't get there Wednesday myself.
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So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems

My brother and I may be able to cover it ourselves as it will only be for 15 minutes. We should have Hellcat, Hellbringer and Desavstator running and we were also hoping to convince Marto to bring JOL. I'll also bring Sidewinder, Fury, Prowler and maybe Prancing Queen as static displays and have a DVD running on my laptop.

Good on you both for making this happen.
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So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems

Yeh i should be able to do that, but if my track record is anything to go by it will work at home then fail there.
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I ordered sabertooth yesterday and I am hoping that a rebind will fix issues with spectrum so hopefully will be good to go.
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Hey all, well I have no robot to show off yet but ill be there on the 22,
Actually have night shift night before that morning till 6am actually working security at south bank so I wander though the area every day at work lol.
Anyway see you then
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Did you guys still want me to come even if I don't have a working bot. It will depend on whether the new BR6000 gets to me 2moro. I ordered overnight toll priority shipping and it is supposed to be picked up today but I can't be sure that I will get it 2moro.

Also where about is it at southbank.
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Yeah, come anyway.
Its outside the Griffith uni art gallery, behing the Ship Inn.

It turns out we didnt need to be there as they sent us an email that did or didn't actually tell us to be there. But we set up on a small stage off to the side and tired to keep out of the way. Fury and Hellbringer had a good time and we might be on Briz31 news tonight, not that anyone will watch it anyway. Sidewinder drew most of the coments even though it was just an empty shell. All was going well except we were in the sun and Hellbringer got so hot that the paint was melting, which caused the solder to melt off the drive motors and the LiPol battery to begin to puff. Fury continued to drive for around for 2 hours off the one battery with no recharging and scared at lot of people.
Not sure how well it all went. We felt like we were forgotten about but also had our photo taken quite a lot and there were lots of pretty girls.