Team Jamsandwich Build Diary

Hello all just starting this Build Diary for my current and future robot's and hope this will serve as a somewhat guide one day.

Team Jamsandwich

Yeah a random name for a team, well it's just me in the team so i don't know if you can it a team.

The robot

The name: when naming the robot i like to give them deep meanings to them so i named it Rukia. (female name) It mean's flower of regret or the Italian pronounciation for Lucia, meaning light.

I'm making a invertible rambot.

Drive: I have two speed 900's i like to over volt them to 18v or 24v my worry is they may make Rukia too fast to control and I'm making my on gearbox.

chassis: made of steel hope to build it strong.

speed controller: two Victor 883's.

armor: 4mm or 5mm hardox.

weapon: speed and strength and 7mm hardox ramming shield i bet it's too heavy.

Radio gear: DX5e or DX7 i hear the DX6i is a bit dodgy.

at the moment it's just getting the part's together and finding some wide wheels.

Go for the DX5e. It's ledgendary, or go for the planet t5

plant 5 rock (and at the moment there cheep)

Update

Just got my self a DX5e and 24V 3.0ah NiCad BattlePack now i need to get gears, drive Chains, wires, Deans Connectors and so on. Steel bars are easy to get... i hope and i need to find a hardox supplier and wide wheels.

update

Just did a drawing of the layout and chassis on cardboard just to get an idea. At the moment it's 18mm long and 12mm wide of course this is just an idea so it may become smaller or larger. Two problem's the battery's are heavy 1kg i think and there's nothing on the front to weighting it down so i may need to put a motor powered weapon like a disc dum like tornado or something else.

...I don't think you mean mm...

Ah it's 18 inches long and 12 inches wide sorry I've got mm in the mind.

i see it all makes sense now :) by the way where did you get your battery pack?

robot market place website it's a 24V 3.0ah NiCad.

$170 for a battery :o i think i'll stick to making my own out of cells :)