21-6-02- Something Nasty in the woodshed | |||||||||||
Finally, the last shall become first. Yes what was the front of KC2 is now the rump... I left the eyes as they looked a bit cape fear, and I'd run out of lexan... talk about scrapheap challenge. Overall armour is dual 3mm lexan with 6mm ally chequer plate, over vital (expensive components), 3x3mm lexan over other bits and whatever was lying around in the lean to for the rest, Next most important job is to weigh the beastie, so I know if I can add some more struts to guard my poor wheels. |
For two years in a row I've missed out joining in with Ian Watts robot bash at the Uni. So I'm making sure I've got something running before it swings around again. So I welded a couple of new gearbox cages into the 4 wheel push bot, and dug out a set of Electronize speed controllers. I fitted the titanium plate that has been cluttering the basement for a decade and have been doing some testing with a set of LiON batteries that used to belong to a cordless strimmer, which fell apart from overuse. I've run it up and the battery doesn't really have enough life to power 4 motors, but is useful for testing. I've stuck some old NiMH units on a charge cycle to see if they have enough life for a bout or two. The only things I actually need to "buy" are a 2.4GHz radio set, as the old 40MHz stuff is against the rules these days, so I've ordered a Hobby King 4 channel set for £20 off ebay. Strangely yesterday Mentorn emailed a bunch of robot folk to
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