Skipdiving Robotics

**daveimi** · 19th August 2015, 13:08

That's cool will send you a PM now!

**daveimi** · 2nd October 2015, 20:39

Got some more offcuts and stuff I found lay about different places. Planning on building running gear into this for Beetle Champs. Bought some botbitz from Ellis and going to get a 3s lipo. Thanks to Will got mixing going on my naff transmitter but have also bought a three quid mixer job and failsafe off amazon just in case.

Also!! Found this bad boy at the tip! So also frantically working on The MicroWave of Doom!!! Gonna build it up as a feather with a sabertooth, some drills and a 12v nimh as I have a few kicking about by now. Will get some more pictures as I start tearing it down. Saw one in Oz running on some of the youtube fights and have been obsessed ever since, decided I needed me some of that.

**suvv** · 4th October 2015, 23:13

yay skipbot i want to see it topple a few of the big hitters in the competition just for the giggles

**tweedermeister** · 5th October 2015, 13:54

Originally Posted by suvv

yay skipbot i want to see it topple a few of the big hitters in the competition just for the giggles

Can confirm it will probably take out Hyperion because it''s something I designed and that pretty much dooms it from the get go.

**mrsam** · 5th October 2015, 15:16

^^

Same goes for my new beetle, i built it therefore it will fail miserably.

**daveimi** · 5th October 2015, 17:14

I don't expect to win anything to be honest just like having a go at building and driving round the arena. To date I've only ever won a few fights so you will all batter me no doubt.

**daveimi** · 5th October 2015, 21:43

Well have made a bit of a profile on the Iron Games site and signed Rancid 3 up to the champs in Nov. Ready to unleash a 1.5kg can of whoop ass on the spinners lol.

**daveimi** · 3rd November 2015, 21:06

Not had a bit of an update in a while so thought I'd best keep my adoring fans happy. Well firstly wanted to say don't take microwaves apart, they're full of high voltages and dodgy chemicals and you're better off just binning them. The magnetron and big capacitors are particularly nasty. Wooden heavyweight frame has been perfected after a summer of rubbish ideas and it's going to be my main focus for next year I think. It's basically a wooden thwack bot. To be honest the hardest part has been mounting wheelchair motors, that were designed for a tubular frame, onto a flat base plate. Obsessed with a wood robot for some reason. Keen to get out of the spinners and after four years fighting on and off in every other weight category I think I'm ready for a go. Piccies below (of random parts gathering and bongos).

Beetle is going well, I've bought a lipo, a cheap 3s charger and power supply, lipo bag thingy, some botbitz and a load of connectors and cabling. Robot is finished physically, just going to charge the lipo and cable everything together for the weekend. Got some better bolts am going to mix on the transmitter. Oh and you can see the difference between the old nimh brick and the new batt!! Lipo ftw. Questions, thoughts, opinions welcome as ever.