17/11/2025
“Anima - meaning:
The irrational part of the soul as distinguished from the rational mind.”
The last week has been an intense adventure, building a Saiko!/Pramheda inspired vertical spinner within 3 days to compete in the UK 12lb/Hobbyweight Championship over the weekend… and finishing in 2nd place after some brutal fights!
Already being different from the usual front hinge flippers ran by Adam, Anima also goes back to our roots with most of the structure being lasercut aluminium and wear plate. And it’s also our first fully am32 driven machine, using escs from Ranglebox - Team Pulsar and Aria, and mostly 3D printed drive reduction and armour!
Seeing it go from a CAD to something capable of beating the legend, Semtex in the roughest battle ever is an absolutely surreal feeling!
A huge shout out to Team SC Combat Robotics, Gibson Welding, Andy Davies, Arran Trouse and Ed Hodges for helping with all the last minute essentials that made the robot actually work! And a massive thanks to Jack Kelly, JP Mac Fhionnlaoich and Calum for being awesome on the spot team mates!
Hats off to the team at Chichester Uni for holding such an awesome championship!
And thank you to everyone for calling it the best looking hobbyweight! It means a lot considering it was such a rush job!
We’re already looking at refinements and changes to help Anima go that one step further and can’t wait to share them with you all!
(And yes the name also originates from a Pendulum album just like Immersion!)