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Hobbyking/eBay stuff arrived. Running the same components in both bots so less spares to carry.
Rough layout of parts. I will probably mill pockets into the frame to give wires somewhere to pass through. Disc is sorted, just need to pay for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K18k...e3wc4Q0S0WUYrQ
To get it to not cut out constantly I had to remove the mixer in the robot, and go back to the tx mixing which limits throttle to 50% or so. That got the robot to actually drive. So its slower and less powerful, but still it's probably better as it will be more controllable now.
Remaking that 4wd beetle I had out of better materials and making it suck less. Frame before was 10mm chopping board and 5mm aluminium. This has been changed to 3mm steel and 12mm nylon. Its got much smaller overall and has better, more sensible sized batteries. The height of the frame has gone from 30mm to 25mm.
with all the bits its about 700g. Which means it sucks at pushing anything. With another 500g (the eggbeater) taped to the top of it, it can happily push around bricks and things so I'll need add a 4mm steel lid or something to bring the weight up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNby...e3wc4Q0S0WUYrQ
Drives nicely, although the mixer or the esc's glitch out from time to time so everything is very delayed on the stick.
Named it Wodge. Will get on adding a wedge or scoop to it soon. Probably be 5mm aluminium.
Rough layout of parts. I will probably mill pockets into the frame to give wires somewhere to pass through. Disc is sorted, just need to pay for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K18k...e3wc4Q0S0WUYrQ
To get it to not cut out constantly I had to remove the mixer in the robot, and go back to the tx mixing which limits throttle to 50% or so. That got the robot to actually drive. So its slower and less powerful, but still it's probably better as it will be more controllable now.
Remaking that 4wd beetle I had out of better materials and making it suck less. Frame before was 10mm chopping board and 5mm aluminium. This has been changed to 3mm steel and 12mm nylon. Its got much smaller overall and has better, more sensible sized batteries. The height of the frame has gone from 30mm to 25mm.
with all the bits its about 700g. Which means it sucks at pushing anything. With another 500g (the eggbeater) taped to the top of it, it can happily push around bricks and things so I'll need add a 4mm steel lid or something to bring the weight up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNby...e3wc4Q0S0WUYrQ
Drives nicely, although the mixer or the esc's glitch out from time to time so everything is very delayed on the stick.
Named it Wodge. Will get on adding a wedge or scoop to it soon. Probably be 5mm aluminium.
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