Skipdiving Robotics

[Albear]

Perfect! Thank you very much! I think they should go back in that :P Do i get a T-shirt? lol

[daveimi]

Lol I'll see what I can do.

[daveimi]

Emergency featherweight building for Manchester in April. Decided to try a similar build to the video John Findlay put up. Drill modding and an off cut I found in the free to a good home thingy in B n Q.

Edit: Prob will be 2wd pusher highly low budget, battery from somewhere, an old 2x12 sabertooth
and my radio.

[daveimi]

New body back from CNC.

[daveimi]

See u all in Manc bright and early

Don't worry...I have bin bags ready...

[R9000]

Oh it's beautiful!! XD See you at the event!

[daveimi]

Right so learnt a lot at manc. Namely that Low Budget 1 was naff but was a massive learning curve. I'm over drills, so have a propper drive train that I need to take a picture of. I'm building an invert-able brick for Low Budget 2 but have ordered everything pre cut to up my game. I'm going to put my old albums on imgur after my photobucket fail. So this time is propper drive train, lipo, need an esc still, dx6i, ally box section and ally top and bottom. I'm not building a wedge but the idea behind the construction technique is Gary Gin and Original Sin.

Moving on up the weight, getting better at feather then going back for another go at a heavy just for live events to the same design.

http://imgur.com/a/plaSC

[Ocracoke]

Oooohh, looking forwards to this one.

[daveimi]

Will be naff like the others lol.

[Albear]

My fav building blog is back! Not naff, just rustic mate Any weapons?

[daveimi]

Was just going to be a super fast ram bot. Toying with a hammer but not sure.

[Ocracoke]

Are you sticking with Gimson motors or trying something different this time around? If it is going to be a ram bot, 4 wheel drive perhaps?

[daveimi]

Erm it's just a ram bot without a wedge to see if it glances off spinners. Which is really what's built to fight. And I'm giving these a try randomly

https://www.technobotsonline.com/919...otor-50-1.html

with skate wheel hub adapters and wheels. Whole thing was like £30 or so delivered and just screws together stress free.

The big thing I should mention, is that if I stay away from a wedge I just need a quick box, in which case any 12v motor setup I can get cheap and find hubs and wheels for should be enough to bash along at a decent rate and hit someone. Obv if it's rubbish you learn and get something better for the next robot.

[Ocracoke]

Fair enough, can't imagine it'll take very long to make mobile. I've not heard anything bad about those sort of motors so hopefully they'll serve you well.

[daveimi]

Yeah well if I was building a big wedge it would need speed 900 drive or something similar to pick up and push. I can't make that myself so was looking for another idea within the realms of possibility.