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Right just to keep people posted and so i have a record to keep track of i'm going to post up a few details of all my robot projects that will be happening over the rest of the year.
So here it goes..
Hatchet - Buying the old girl back some time soon and making a few more modifications, namely a new scooter motor, upgrade from a 4 to 5s Lipo and possibly a reduction change on the axe. Going to be using it as my running feather for events until i get around to building Hatchet 2 at which point Hatchet will become a Whiteboard machine.
Hatchet 2 - Putting a lot of thought and design time into this to make sure it's as good as can be, will be built towards the end of the year/beginning of next year. Changing just about everything to make it stronger, more reliable and crucially more powerful, I won't give away too much as the specs have changed from when i last posted about it but i assure you all it will be a MUCH better machine.
Lynx - My beetle i'll be bringing to Brize Norton, basically a Hazard style overhead spinner with a stupidly big blade powered by an even more stupid Brushless at a stupidly over the top 4s. Will be starting this early next month so keep your eyes peeled for updates!.
Buzz - Antweight bar spinner, basically a teeny tiny buzzbar with a 2mm stainless steel blade. Hopefully i can get it together for AWS but building it and the beetle side by side might be a bit ambitious in the time frame. If not there are always more Ant events and if it comes down to it i would choose to focus on the Beetle.
Wraith - Something a bit different this one, after finding the motor/gearbox combo i posted a couple of days ago on my doorstep i decided i really wanted to use it in something. Well after thinking about it i've come up with Wraith, basically i'm going for a Featherweight version of IG-88 from Robot wars. The robot itself will be pretty old school, i'll be using drill motors, servo switch esc's for the drive and a relay for the weapon, the chassis will be a mix of Hdpe, Nylon and Aluminium and the bar will be a whacking great lump of stainless ( 250mm long, roughly 25mm thick!). For testing purposes it will be run on 5s but for full combat fights i'll run it at 6s and see how that works, won't be all that damaging or high tech but i quite like the idea of making a simple, cheap spinner just to show that it can be done.
So here it goes..
Hatchet - Buying the old girl back some time soon and making a few more modifications, namely a new scooter motor, upgrade from a 4 to 5s Lipo and possibly a reduction change on the axe. Going to be using it as my running feather for events until i get around to building Hatchet 2 at which point Hatchet will become a Whiteboard machine.
Hatchet 2 - Putting a lot of thought and design time into this to make sure it's as good as can be, will be built towards the end of the year/beginning of next year. Changing just about everything to make it stronger, more reliable and crucially more powerful, I won't give away too much as the specs have changed from when i last posted about it but i assure you all it will be a MUCH better machine.
Lynx - My beetle i'll be bringing to Brize Norton, basically a Hazard style overhead spinner with a stupidly big blade powered by an even more stupid Brushless at a stupidly over the top 4s. Will be starting this early next month so keep your eyes peeled for updates!.
Buzz - Antweight bar spinner, basically a teeny tiny buzzbar with a 2mm stainless steel blade. Hopefully i can get it together for AWS but building it and the beetle side by side might be a bit ambitious in the time frame. If not there are always more Ant events and if it comes down to it i would choose to focus on the Beetle.
Wraith - Something a bit different this one, after finding the motor/gearbox combo i posted a couple of days ago on my doorstep i decided i really wanted to use it in something. Well after thinking about it i've come up with Wraith, basically i'm going for a Featherweight version of IG-88 from Robot wars. The robot itself will be pretty old school, i'll be using drill motors, servo switch esc's for the drive and a relay for the weapon, the chassis will be a mix of Hdpe, Nylon and Aluminium and the bar will be a whacking great lump of stainless ( 250mm long, roughly 25mm thick!). For testing purposes it will be run on 5s but for full combat fights i'll run it at 6s and see how that works, won't be all that damaging or high tech but i quite like the idea of making a simple, cheap spinner just to show that it can be done.
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