Less than a week to go the next #HackyRacers event on Saturday 26th August

Great entertainment, affordable, low budget, electric eco racing thrills coming to #Huntingdon.
A great chance for folks in #NorthHerts, #Hitchin, #Letchworth, #Stevenage to see what some #HitchinHackspace members get up to at #HackyRacers https://hackyracers.co.uk/

The Hacky Racers will be at a New Event!

Come and see what electric racing is all about!

They will be racing at "Cars at the Farm '23", a kit-car show at Corner Farm, Huntingdon PE28 4JX, on Saturday 26th August.
https://www.rhocar.org/index.php?/events/event/872-cars-at-the-farm/
Tickets can be purchased here: https://ticketstripe.com/carsatthefarm

A last #HackyRacers #PiWars #RoboticRacingChallenge roundup with all the results from the weekends racing.
For more info on Hacky Racers visit https://hackyracers.co.uk/
For more info on PiWars visit https://piwars.org/

Quoting from Mark Mellors Hacky Racers Tweets:
"Congrats to all our competitors at our first ever Robotic Racing event!
results 🧵👇"

After the busy weekend in Cambridge here are a few more posts from over in the other thing about #HackyRacers #PiWars #RoboticRacing Challenge.
First up a short YouTube photo montage from competitor and "Little Trak" creator Phil Willis @ptbw

https://youtu.be/QAIb3Rs1dJQ

@n20437 @recantha
Cool 😎 thanks for sharing more #HackyRacers pictures 👍

A pic of the man himself, Mark Mellors, aboard the infamous Rule Zero. #HackyRacers.

As pointed out on Twitter by @Cannonfodder there is something wrong with this picture....

.... Rule Zero has all 4 wheels on the ground. Usually it cocks it's inside rear wheel in the air like a pup at a lamppost courtesy of its solid rear axle. Again thanks to @recantha for the picture

Day two of #HackyRacers
More passing on info and action from #HitchinHackspace member Mark Mellors who is part of the  https://hackyracers.co.uk/ and the #RoboticRacingSeries https://hackyracers.co.uk/robotic-racing-series/ autonomous #raspberrypi controlled race event , in association with #PiWars,  in Cambridge at The Roger Needham Building at Cambridge University just off the A1303 today.
We will try to keep up with Mark's posts on Txxxxxr.....

Have I had a productive day?

Why yes, yes I have.

#robotics #HackyRacers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY90MMw2-V4

While working on a project in the run up to @emf this year I dropped a spanner and it fell through a gap in my workshop floor. I'm building a homage to Thunderbird 4 and sending it on a rescue mission.

The donor vehicle is a Nikko VolociTrax, you can find them for £20 if you shop around. This is one of two I bought for #PiWars prototyping in 2019.

Itll also be the basis for my #autonomous #hackyracers e try for the A4 class

A bit of an intro, I'm a #robotics engineer but dabble in many things. #programming, #music occasionally, always making something! This is my robot #nefive, originally built for #PiWars, but has a life of his own now.

I'm also one of the organisers of #hackyracers! More about that soon...

HackSpace magazine issue 11: best maker hardware https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/hackspace-magazine-11-best-maker-hardware/ #hackspacemagazine #alshackshack #hackyracers #hackspace #hardware #alexglow