Robot the Bruce
(Sorry about the picture, but it's the best I have)
This was the other entry in Series 1 to emerge from my Workshop.
Simon and I built the mechanics, while
George Francis and Mick Cutter (the two team members in the TV program) built
the electronics.
Its main (in fact it's only) weapon was brute force. This was achieved by using 2 Sinclair C5 12V motors (one per side). Each motor drove both wheels on it's side via a 30:1 reducion gearbox. This 4 wheel drive gave Bruce lots of torque and traction, but it's main problem was that the resulting skid steering consumed large amounts of battery power. It would only run for 10 minutes on each set of batteries.