Team Death - New Heavyweight

[team death]

Sunny Sunday -Today I mainly worked on the front skids of the Robot
and I'm hoping that balancing the front end weight between the scoop
and the castors will greatly improve the steering of the Robot.
Unfortunately Adam was unavailable this week so I was unable to take
the Bot for a test run-it really is a 2 person job to cart around.

Last week we tried the Robot with 65% of the weight on the front MK1
skid, this had the effect of helping with straight steering but the Robot
had to work too hard and leads got hot -also the turning was quite poor.
Before we fitted the jaws the steering was really quite good so if we can
negate the weight of the jaws by putting 12kg or so on to the scoop skid
the motors should be less strained and the turning and steering should be
better.
Adam had been chatting with the crackers and smash team a couple of weeks
ago and they suggested we changed our battery holding sleeves because any
impact would be transferred through to the batteries, so today I also removed
the sleeves and we will probably wrap the batteries in foam or bubble wrap.

Because I wasn't pushed for time today I visited the car boot sale in the morning
and picked up some interesting items including two game console remotes which
we can adapt to use for the weapon,a small car that I may make into a ant or beetle
weight and a broken helicopter full of servos motors and cogs.