Skipdiving Robotics

[daveimi]

Electrics are finished and have a short vid of it bombing round the kitchen.

[gizz]

Looks nice and seem quite fast

[mrsam]

Cable ties, a roboteers best friend. It does look nice and fast and unlike Lynx...It's working!

[daveimi]

Lol if you get it going lemme know and I'll shove some bin bags in my tool bag...

[mrsam]

Won't know until tomorrow at the event whether it works or not, if I can scrounge an rx from someone it should. Bin bags may be necessary for me, it may well explode.

[daveimi]

You're welcome to one of my naff spare radio link rx's. I dunno if it will work with which ever specific tx you have.

[mrsam]

That'd be great, I'll see if I can find the specs online and see if it's compatible.

[daveimi]

Yeah no worries. I kept cooking them in my antweight till I realised I was wiring the power in wrong. So I have a stack of them lol. Bringing everything with me in the morning so will come and say hi. Will be the sweaty looking one with trackies and a hoodie on lol. So can't be bothered having a shower at half 5 in the morning when I need to set off!

[suvv]

stick a weight on a bit of cable and with that spin speed it will make a very nice flail type weapon and it wont be that complicated to do

[daveimi]

I took a couple of pictures so thought I'd stick them up. Robot ran well in it's one fight and took a battering and was running at the end of the bout so it's been a huge confidence boost. Starting building Rancid 2 last night based on a completely ally body properly fabricated (ish) with decent wheels and new electronics. Took the day as a huge learning curve looking at all the other robots and had a fantastic time. Wanted to say a big thank you to limpet, Will and john_frizell for chatting to me and being friendly Am eagerly awaiting sign ups for the next event and think I may become a regular at the iron games