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BLESSED ARE THE

CHEESE MAKERS

You built a cheese press! Excellent

work. Now go forth and build a micro

distillery (I already have a brewery

going with the excellent BrewPi) and

I can make some delicious warming

spirits to go with the cheesy goodness

I’m preparing right now.

Andrew

York

We’d have to look into the legal

situation behind home distilling, as it

was probably banned by Cromwell and

nobody’s bothered to legalise it again.

However, we’ll keep up with the food

production, as we all need to eat.

Piwars.org

21ST–22ND APRIL 2018

CAMBRIDGE COMPUTER LABORATORY

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14/12/2017 15:28

ROBOTS
I’d just like to echo what Adam said
in issue 2’s letters pages: more robots
please. Robot Wars’ internationals series
has been absolutely brilliant [shown
in the UK on BBC — other channels are
available]. I’ve been to the exhibition at
the museum of science and industry you
wrote about last issue too , which was
awesome but made my daughter cry –
(she’s only three). I think it was a little
bit too weird for her. Then I watched the
Black Mirror episode with the robot
dog thing and that made me think
about Boston Dynamics in a whole
new light. So when I say more robots,
can it please be non-threatening, non-
scary, friendly robots please?

Sanjay
Birmingham

A philosopher would say that fear of
the robots is fear of oneself. But we
completely understand. We’ll make it
magazine policy to stick friendly faces
on all our robot builds from now on, to
mask their evil intent. Also, if you’re in
any way interested in robotics, try to get
down to Pi Wars in Cambridge – despite
the name there’s no robot combat, just
trials to put the machines through their

paces. Entries are closed for this year,

but if you can be there as an audience

member you’ll be in the same room as

some very clever people, all of whom are

keen to share their expertise.

Below

Piwars – it’s the

friendly face of

robotics in the UK