Drill motor conversion kits - guaging interest

[typhoon_driver]

Been playing about with a basic design for a drill motor conversion kit that will allow you to essentially take the motor and gearbox out of a cheap cordless drill and quickly and easily mount it. Parts would be 3D printed. Prototypes are in PLA for ease and quickness but final ones would likely be in nylon. Still got a good bit of work to do with tolerances (hence the crack in the picture) but I was looking to see if it's something there would be an interest for before I develop the idea further?

I'd also be looking for an established team to test them in the arena to see if they are suitable for combat (to a point!) before sale.

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[daveimi]

You wouldn't be able to make these fast enough. Sort out some wheels as well and you'd have an inbox full, picking up where gimson and robochallenge left off.

[typhoon_driver]

So that's a thumbs up from Dave

[adamclark]

How about a double pack to have two motors driving a single wheel?

[typhoon_driver]

Adam, these are only meant a a very quick and easy way to use a single drill motor. Machining up casings etc would add to the cost and complexity of the assembly (the casing in the pic comes out the drill gearbox). Generally a single drill motor will be able to spin a wheel on a featherweight so going with twice the power doesn't really gain you all that much. Nice idea though.

[higgeh]

looks good. would probably be a lot easier than screwing the drill casings onto the bottom of the bots. Will keep an eye on this one.

[adamclark]

Ah I see. Was thinking along the whyachi multi drive principle.

[mrsam]

I still use drills in my Feather so i'd be happy to give these a test, Hatchet tends to give it's internals a good shaking around.

[Graw]

I am going to start off with a couple drill motors in my new build and I'd defo pick up a couple of these if they were available

[typhoon_driver]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I'll keep on with the development of these and see if I can't get something in the next couple of weeks that I would be happy to send into an arena.

[R9000]

This sounds fantastic - I think there's some real money to be made from this, especially if you can source some compatible wheels too.

[typhoon_driver]

Lol! Unfortunately Rory there's not much beyond pocket money to be made once everything is tallied up however I'm happy to fill the gap that there is for first timers (and those with experience!) looking for an easy bolt in solution for a featherweight drive train.

[R9000]

Is a decent quality nylon 3D print really that expensive? I guess it depends how much people are willing to pay. But yeah, I love that you're willing to help out people who don't want to faff around for ages crafting motor mounts and such.

[typhoon_driver]

A 100% infill for strength and rigidity 3D print in high quality nylon isn't expensive materially but there is a fair bit of time involved to print it. The other thing I'm keeping in mind is that I don't want to stray into competing with Ellis and his more high end solutions. This is meant to be a cheap and easy way to get yourself going.

[R9000]

Ohh I see. Yeah that makes a lot of sense.