Sabretooth Reborn as a Feather

[Gabe01]

So this is one of my heavy designs for Sabretooth, tweaked and resurrected, now to be built as a feather, using a lot of Gimson items!

[jonny]

Coolafe g-rafe

[Gabe01]

so this is what it will be made of

Body
10mm aluminium plate
10mm HDPE sheet
110mm electrofusion tee

Drive
Gimsons 14.4 v and wheels
Sabretooth speed controller

Weapon
Saw driven by a brushless motor, just sourcing a non hardened blade.
interchangeable
18v drill

both weapons moved by a Gimson actuator (will be ordering soon Ewan, I have asked my wife to get them for my Birthday present

Grabbing self righting claw, driven by another Gimson actuator

Battery
Turnigy 5000mAh 5S 20C Lipo Pack 18v

[harry hills]

sounds awesome, good luck getting that effective and in weight

[Gabe01]

Its only 310mm long and 250mm wide so i reckon it should be fine, we will see, looking right on weight at the moment.

[billy breach]

have you started any construction yet

[Gabe01]

I am just amassing the parts I have the motors and wheels, speed controller, the rest is coming next week. I am cleaning out the workshop (not touched since last series of robot wars). Then I will start with a mdf prototype to test the drive and self righting. I'm off to the alps end of next week so work will begin in earnest beginning of Feb. I will start posting some of the wooden constructions for feedback.

[Gabe01]

Parts so far

[jonny]

cool, is the big black t shaped thing a peice of drainpipe :shock:

[Gabe01]

cool, is the big black t shaped thing a peice of drainpipe :shock:

its a piece of hdpe waterpipe, freshwater rather than drain, it will be welded to the other bits on order