I had a phone call from RDF media last week, informing me that our team for the second scrapheap challenge roadshow had been accepted, and that we could start building our welly wanger.
This is a different team that entered the Sofa Speedway, and I’m the team captain this time, together with Andy Shaw and Ian Izett, we are building a computer controlled welly chucker, that will have an on-board microcontroller, witha USB interface to a laptop that will perform all the complex calculations that are required to be able to control the distance that the welly will be thrown.
It’s all taking place at The Great Dorset Steam Fair on the 30th August, so we’ve got to get busy with the building and programming, so that we can have enough time to train the artificial intelligence in the control software to the physical aspects of the machine.