But even more so it’s fun to look back on the state of the art of the time and see some clever workarounds in a time when robot building was just starting to be approachable by the average engineer.Ĭontinue reading “Ever Wonder How The Bots On Robot Wars Were Built?” → Posted in Engineering, Featured, Robots Hacks Tagged robot, robot wars, robotic combat, SMIDSY The hard work and determination make this a great story.
I hadn’t seen for a few years as our lives had drifted apart, but if we were to turn back the clock nearly a couple of decades you would find us and about twenty other fellow members of the Ixion British motorcyclist’s mailing list hard at work building a Robot Wars robot. I had the pleasure of being on the team that built and competed with SMIDSY and carry from it some of the more found memories from that decade.Ī few weeks ago I learned that a friend from that period in my life had died following an illness. It wasn’t the most successful of machines because its weapons were slightly weedy compared to some of the competition, but it was one of the more robust and reliable platforms on the circuit at the time thanks to its combination of simple uncomplicated construction and extremely good design.
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SMIDSY, short for the insubstantial excuse heard by many a motorcyclist “Sorry Mate, I Didn’t See You”, is a robot that competed in several seasons of the British incarnation of the Robot Wars TV show.
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SMIDSY in the pits for series 5 of the UK Robot Wars TV show. But it makes for some entertaining television! It is this combination that thrust a few creative robot building teams into the world of Robot Wars. Building one that can stand up to another robot trying to violently put it out of commission is an even harder task. Continue reading “The Invisible Battlefields Of The Russia-Ukraine War” → Posted in Current Events, Featured, Interest, News, Original Art, Security Hacks, Slider Tagged cybersecurity, russia, Social Media, ukraineīuilding a robot that can do anything well is a tough challenge. Russia denied involvement with the attacks, but US and UK intelligence services have evidence they believe implicates Moscow. The goal is to overwhelm the server such that it isn’t able to keep up and stops replying to legitimate requests, like a user trying to access a website. A network of internet-connected devices, either owned by the aggressor or infected with malware, floods a target with request, as if millions of users hit “refresh” on the same website at the same time, repeatedly. A DDoS attack is a relatively straightforward way to quickly take a server offline. Subsequent attacks have temporarily downed the websites of Ukraine’s Security Service, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and government.
Two weeks ago, before the invasion began en masse, Russian cyberwarfare agents launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against Ukrainian government and financial websites. The first casualties in the online component of the war have been websites.
Combined with civilian access to information unlike the world has ever seen before, this promises to be a war like no other. Digital espionage, social media and online surveillance have become indispensable instruments in the tool chest of a modern army, and both sides of the conflict have been putting these tools to use. He was watching a traffic jam on Google Maps slowly inch towards and across the Russia-Ukraine border.Īs he watched the invasion begin along with the rest of the world, another, less-visible facet of the emerging war was beginning to unfold on an ill-defined online battlefield. This wasn’t privileged information - anybody with an internet connection could access it, if they knew where to look. Jeffrey Lewis, a professor at California’s Middlebury Institute of International Studies watched Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfold in realtime with troop movements overlaid atop high-resolution satellite imagery. Early in the morning of February 24th, Dr.