Its been a while since I last updated this. The biggest news is that I've been stalled working on the lifter. It was a very expensive decision point, if I got it right it should work with minimal work, if I get it wrong the lifter arm would be useless and the core the chassis would need to be redesigned. As not making a decision is much much cheaper in the short term I stalled. However I've reached my "oh fuck it" point and I've ordered the lifting arm.

Another reason I stalled is while conducting extensive driving testing (aka ragging it around to scare people) I killed the battery. My 18.5V 5AHr 5S1P battery now has a voltage of 13.92Volts, 4 of the cells are at 2.73V. It's dead, pushing up the daisies etc. It happened just as my bank account was due to be cleared out for 2+ successive months so I couldn't just snap buy a replacement. I'm aware that I could, very carefully, recover it but after seeing I'm terrified of what could happen when it goes wrong.

I'm planning to show it off at the Manchester Mini-Makerfaire July 26-27th and at EMF Camp August 29-31st. I've also got a wild hope of taking it to Stevenage and *gasp* competing!!!