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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 Science, worked as a solar astronomer, software engineer, systems programmer, webmaster, research assistant, Cisco CCNA tutor, Physics laboratory demonstrator, Computational Theory lecturer, and subject coordinator; while changing his career to freelance writing and broadcasting. Listen to Ian on the Diffusion radio science show on radio 2SER 107.3FM Monday at 6:30pm in Sydney or streaming audio on www.2ser.com, or listen to the Diffusion podcasts. You should follow me on twitter, here

Posted by iwoolf at July 7, 2004 1:41 AM | TrackBack