• Follow up
    • Series 10 reflections
      • Whimsy
      • Format
      • Ryan and Sam make each other sound like dysfunctional hermits
      • Editing
        • Ten robot rumble: extended cut
      • Ratings
        • No, not those ratings…
    • International specials
      • COMPETITOR SPOILERS! Skip to 12 mins to avoid!
      • The last set of ‘specials’ and why they sucked
  • LEGO Robot Wars
    • An episode. There are many. Watch them. All of them
      • Remote controlled LEGO used right
        • Almost every weapon type
        • Homemade arena
        • Higher production values than Robot Wars: Grand Champions
    • Ryan & Sam’s childhood robot building safari
      • Sam wins…with parental help
        • LEGO Mindstorms
          • Programming a sentry gun
            • Editorial note: that’s not proper LEGO and you know it
            • Learning to code?
              • LEGO Mindstorms’ programming interface
              • Scratch
              • For context, Sam is a software developer. WHO KNEW?
        • Creating mechanisms
          • Rack and Pinion steering
          • Differentials - they’re magic
          • ‘Walkers’
      • Ryan is a LEGO hipster
        • 10 years of building and destroying Robot Wars robots
          • Elasticate ALL OF THE MECHANISMS
            • Deadly seige weaponry
            • Mangonel
            • Series 1 Dead Metal
      • Meccano
        • Sam’s Meccano ~~finger amputator~~ bar spinner
        • Plastic, for safety
      • Building LEGO from kits
        • Saturn V kit
          • 1m of phallic, American pride to “display and role-play”
        • Why not just buy bricks?
        • Big brand crossovers, because LEGO isn’t famous or anything
        • LEGO models, or models made of LEGO?
          • Millennium Falcon kit comparison
          • The crane that ‘looks like LEGO’
      • K’Nex
        • Rubbish, but good
        • Simple and effective, but fiddly
        • Function over form
          • “You’d have a hard time building a good-looking house out of K’Nex”
        • An 8 minute argument about whether aesthetics are an engineer’s concern
  • Welcome to Tangentsville
    • Minorest Star Wars spoilers ever
    • The Spinnerproof origins story
      • Star Wars ‘Machette’ viewing order
      • ‘Correct’ Robot Wars viewing order?
    • Mis-remembering Tornado
      • Tornado did nothing wrong
      • Inquisitor - vanquisher of the mighty Razer
        • Ryan tries to remember who won the First World Championships having only started talking about the World Championships as part of a conversation about Razer
    • Obsolete audio format.PCX
    • The morals of taking LEGO back from a child
    • Sam is literally James Bond
    • Crushed childhood dreams of entering Robot Wars
      • Ryan considers ‘post the year 2000’ to be near the end of Robot Wars
    • Scrapheap Challenge
      • Dick Strawbridge