That lighting sounds very low from our experience in Sydney. If those lights are only 500W each, I suggest hanging at least 1 or two extra in the centre of the arena to compete with the ambient sunlight.

The diagram shows a 'roving camera'; does that mean the matches will be on the big screen? that would be very cool!

The camera stup will be the same as last Ideas Festival. They were shown on the big screen as well last time.

Our arena has a lot more polycarb then the NSW arena and it located in an open, well lit venue. I doubt lighting will be too much of a problem and we don't have enough time and money to worry at the moment.

A news paper artical. So far its all that cut and pasted from the Ideas Festival website. But the picture might cause a problem
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/whatson/robowars-at-south-bank/2009/03/09/1236447109109.html

Its just a suggestion - you generally want the focus of attention to be quite a bit brighter than the surroundings, no matter what the ambient light is. The guys at RG09 found that their lighting was far too dim last year after a box of lights went missing; their arena is all polycarb.

i can bring down 4x 500 watt haelogens if you can get them tagged or i will try to get them tagged here before i come down

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Originally posted by Daniel:
The Green room will only be open for 2 hours on friday morning and 2 hours on sunday afternoon. It can't be used fo storage as that would require extra security that no one wants to pay for. So all gear needs to be taken home each night. Its a bit of a bugger, but if you look at the bright side at least we'll get some more exercise.

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Originally posted by Glen:
apparently if you buy a brand new power board and open it at the venue your allowed to use it i heard? correct? might be worth it to just buy a $5 board at the woolies.

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Starfish Prime has withdrawn and Orbit probably won't come, so that only leaves us with 3 NSW robots entered. I have recieved a few messages about a 4th robot but it doesn't sound like the interstate thing is too much to worry about anymore. Its a shame since I just got it all sorted out. Steve has still forgotten to sign up which leaves us with 21 or 22 robots. Regestration closes in 6ish days (next wednesday american time). So we won't beat Battlebots 31 robots.

Starfish Prime appeared to me to be the returning champion judging by the regestring email address.

Uh, yeah, sorry about that. . . I'm more than a little pissed about having to withdraw - Why is it impossible to find a decent CNC place in Sydney that won't take less than a month to do what is a fairly simple job. . . Financial crisis my arse, everyone still seems to have plenty of work - Don't suppose anyone knows of CNC routing / milling place in NSW that can do stuff fast, well, like really fast now?
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call Geoff at GTTooling: 0410492581

Depending on how complex it is and what format it's in he might be able to do it pretty quickly.
He programs the machine manually going from the drawing usually (ie not PC controlled)
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So half the field is Vic bots so without rigging to stop state verse state vics will verse eachother as much as anyone else in theory.
at least 6 of the 11 vic bots have competed in at least 1 local vic event in 2008.
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dont cound me out yet there daniel

im home from work today with stomach ickyness and a sore head so prob wont do anything today but sleep and relax/recover but this weekend providing im healthy should see alot of progress

It will be tight but still very doable
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So Starfish was Jeff all along? Let's hope the CNC gets done for another event if not this one.

@ all the NSW team guys: I have plenty of 3 pin mains plug to IEC cords with test tags - free for asking. My 8 way power board is getting tagged on Monday and I only need one or two outlets, so we can share the one board if you don't have a certified one.

I'm just stirring to see what bobs up.

I was going to bring a few other bots as fillers or for some one el;se to drive if we needed to round up numbers but with no storagew there im not coing to be cartting them al back and forth ever day to the car Ive entered two bots but will probaly only be one on the dat when i get there i will, decide which one is running in the main event or wil offer one up for someone else to drive arron might have a driver for me i will let every one know onj the day if it needs a driver .

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Uh, yeah, sorry about that. . . I'm more than a little pissed about having to withdraw - Why is it impossible to find a decent CNC place in Sydney that won't take less than a month to do what is a fairly simple job. . . Financial crisis my arse, everyone still seems to have plenty of work - Don't suppose anyone knows of CNC routing / milling place in NSW that can do stuff fast, well, like really fast now?

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