Craig Danby

Sooooooo…. its been a while, I’ve been busy. Mostly dodging people but also working.

My day job never shut down, we didn’t get the stimulus for small businesses so we carried on doing our day job. With filming being pushed back to October I found myself at a lot of loose ends looking for something to do. I had no idea where I would end up or what I would end up doing but the initial bug for my challenge bot died off, pretty quickly once it was done.
A lot of work went into the challenge bot but it inevitably was pretty useless and ended up under the welding table and literally collecting dust, mostly from the welding table above it. You’ll get to see a video of it doing something at some point, it did achieve its goal of proving anything with enough will power can become a Battlebot.

I went SlamMow crazy….. I have so many weapon set ups for SlamMow its a bit of a problem. I now have 36 weapon combinations and with a bit of additional variety I could do even more. I built 3 complete chassis all working all ready to go. I did a bunch of videos of it testing, even went viral on TikTok with one of them. They all need repainting because I’ve literally been throwing them off the back of a truck to check their durability, videos to follow…

I put Predator back together and got covered in oil because fuck hydraulics.

I started rebuilding Foxic, put a hydraulic weapon system in because I never learn, dropped the robot to 24v again from 48v and stripped the useful parts off Foxtrot to make Foxic work again.

Foxtrot will be a coffee table, once its cleaned and polished it’ll take pride of place in my bonus room, once I figure out how to take a 250lbs robot up a flight of stairs.

I started on 2 new bots a Blendo clone and a hammer bot made from drill motors and trailer mud guards. These bots were for my own robot combat series I had planned for YouTube. I was going to do a bracket and fight my own robots and I still will but not right now. Right now we have to get ready for what might happen with Battlebots.

We were announced back in March/April as being on the show and since then the dates have changed 6+ times, and we genuinely thought 2 weeks ago we wouldn’t get to play. So much so that I bought the stuff to make my arena for my Backyard bots event. But now its back on and we’re ready for when the box finally opens again and I cannot fucking wait

Also I made some tables for the workshop