Team Shakey - Axebot

[Shakey]

*cough* Well I think I thumb twiddled long enough. In the buildup to The Fleet air arm museum where I aim to be running this I have been getting a good deal of work done.

I have the rear armour on, a battery box made up and the front armour and small scoop started.





I was planning to slope the front armour but I decided that in reality I wanted a different chassis design but am finishing this one for Air Arm so i can have a robot and then spend more time on a proper chassis after. The axe will be controlled via an Arduino and a TZ85 with motor braking removed, it will also use the gear channel of my DX6i to remotely arm and disarm the axe for safety (particularly in roaming robots where the link would be put in outside the arena).

The scoop will be fairly short, the aim would be to wedge it under an opponent and then fire the axe sandwiching the other bot between the two, but if it can't get under I should still be able to hit them.

Just got to finish the front and then the extra side armour. Add in a HDPE 8mm top and then wire it all up.

EDIT: I am actually looking for a more powerful drive system for the next iteration, what sortof thing would one have to do nowadays to get S900esque drive but not S900's as they are near impossible to find.

I haven't ground down the welding on the front yet.