Boring Brick

[mrsam]

I always planned on adding a mixer as it is really difficult driving diagonal and there wouldn't be much point having the axe if i can't actually drive well enough to hit anything, as you said Niels practice ALOT!

[Niels - Team K.a.L.M.]

Just practise a lot

[razerdave]

That TX you have does not have internal mixing, nor do your speed controllers as I understand. Put one in to save you driving diagonal (I can't drive diagonal for toffee!).

[mattsdragons]

Ajust the grub screws in the grum screws so the wheels have the same amount of turn by hand before you can feel it bite, this will help with accuracy a bit.

Deffo want to look at adding a gyro but could just simply swap the motors round for now to improve the forward motion, who needs straight reverse anyway hahaha

[mrsam]

No mixer in there and all the trim buttons are centered, I'll have a play around with them and if it still happens I can *just* get it to go straight with some fiddly driving

[razerdave]

Is there a mixer in the robot? It could also be a trim issue , since it went straight backwards. I've found with. 2WD robots that they go straight one way and often veer off the other way, hence Satanix having a Gyro.

[mrsam]

New video as promised, my driving really is awful at the moment http://s921.photobucket.com/user/mrs...c3e1b.mp4.html

[mrsam]

Hatchet is now all wired up and ready for a drive test, so once the batteries have finished charging expect a very bad one handed driving video

[mrsam]

I was planning on adding a wedge to the front if the budget allows however hardox might be a bit too expensive for now so it will probably just be stainless

[mattsdragons]

By the sounds of things you don't have weight to worry about, may be worth adding a hardox wedge to the front that has a back plate you can bolt on to cover the whole of that front, gives spinners something to hit and if you get under people can give you a few more hits. Doesn't need to be overly large, just may help in both attack and defence

[Ellis]

Chunky! This is a really cool build. Love the angles!

[mrsam]

More work on the axe mounts today, still not quite finished i still need to cut some angles as is customary on this bot but here it is all fitted together,

[mrsam]

The axe is pretty beefy, all credit goes to Mario he did an amazing job on it, it won't be the fastest axe around but it's pretty heavy so it should hopefully be a good balance of speed and power

[Flag Captured]

Nice one, sounds a pretty awesome name! Looking forward to seeing the machine with the axe mounts on it too - the axe is a lot chunkier than I thought it was, going to be a force to be reckoned with!

[mrsam]

A quick search came up with Hatchet and I think that sounds good as a name


Edit: I also forgot to mention that i weighed the bot as it was in the last picture and it's only 6.6kg!, so that leaves me with a maximum of 7kg for the axe supports and mechanism, the scooter motor, a 30 amp electronize, the top panel and with that much weight left to spare i reckon i could even squeeze a scoop on the front.