HardWired II

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So, HardWired's getting a total rebuild and a new name so I thought I'd best make a new build diary of it. I'm thinking Doomsayer but I'm sure that's taken.
It's all in the planning stage at the minute, but I'm planning to reuse the old HardWired style of chassis with a few design modifications and make it a lifter. Sticking with the old 'low budget is better' approach, I'm going to attempt using either car jacks for the lifting mechanism or this - http://www.rapidonline.com/Electrica...-5-15v-37-1121 - in some manner.

Reason I'm using this as opposed to a linear actuator is they're a fair bit more expensive and I'm not sure how it'd work in my machine, since HardWired is only about 60mm high, hence it might not even fit, and I'd need one that'd lift quite a lot more than 20kg to get the height I'd want on the lift.

Using plenty of magnets for downforce in this one, where I can and to get the power out of it that I'd need, I'm going to go brushless, using this http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...arehouse_.html
and this http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...arehouse_.html
initially two motors, then moving up to 4 if I can sometime in the future. Going to attempt to gear these down as much as I can so that it's torquey but also pretty nippy. Ideally, I'd like it to be something like Storm II in that it's got plenty of power to push machines into the walls and hopefully knock something loose.

Going to try and make the entire chassis out of Stainless steel to, now that I've got access to some of that, plan being that I make the chassis out of 8mm and the front of the lifting scoop out of about 12mm, the top of it about 5mm. Baseplate would most likely be about 3/4mm at most too. I'm not sure on how heavy it'd be, but Hardwired is extremely flat (Did it on purpose so I could put much thicker side armour on) so I'm hoping not too heavy.

Pictures on their way, I'm building an MDF model to make sure everything'll work up to scratch.


Oh, and another thing - I'm toying with the idea of interchangeable weaponry, so I'm trying to make the lifter removable and replaceable with, say, a small drum or claws or something. Would like to have a lifter/flipper hybrid but I have literally no idea how to pneumatics. Or hydraulics for that matter...