It's that time again!

Jibril
The replacement ESC has turned up earlier than expected so I plumbed that in and the Axe worked... briefly. To try and avoid a repeat of the situation at RoboDojo, I took the ESC off the standoff plate and shuffled it a little bit to avoid the same issue happening and for a few brief glorious moments, it did. It was putting big dents in the wooden trolley I am using to transport Jibril on and that was the plastic Scythe Axe seen at RL Burgess Hill which must weigh 500g tops.

However... the output gear then slipped on the shaft sidewards and the axe arm promptly KO'ed the second speed controller in exactly the same place as the first one. I wasn't pleased.

Anyway, today was a bit better as the Scythe Axe is back from the engineers and it is pretty mighty. 3.5kg total weight. I've wedged in some HDPE rod to act as a shock absorber. It just needs to be mounted to the robot, which I'll do at Portsmouth. I've also broken out the soldering iron and fixed the first ESC so now that works again. I've also put the Axe on its own receiver but coming from the same transmitter so with any luck, this will finally solve the jitteriness issue I keep on coming across.

The list of things to do (in no order):
1. Fit the tether to the axe head
2. Paint the axe
3. Fit nyloc nuts to the axe head
4. Get a slot cut into the front bar
5. Move the Axe ESC to be on top of the drive ESC.
Bring on EXR Portsmouth!