I don't have any pictures to update with but some progress to write up. I'm just looking at shortening the spike, and am halfway through making the corresponding top plate. The top plate is identical to the base plate lol.

5mm steel is taking a while to grind into shape, much to the disgust of the neighbors. I'm spectacularly impressed with my fifteen quid b n q grinder and complimentary cut-anything blade.

I was going to use heavy steel angle to bolt sides and a lid on, but looking at the strength of it I'm thinking about just using the angle as the side wall. Drilling it all and bolting it all together, get the link and LED in and Robert's your mothers brother.

Oh and wheel guards...I'm making wheel guards. This has taken some thought however. I've found a place that gets rid of old steel cabinets etc so when I want to make something, it's a case of wait for something the right shape. Go and ask the increasingly-worried skip man if I can have it. Then drag said furniture home and give it a soothing caress with the grinder. Drill and file said part into shape. It's an amazingly easy way of obtaining pre-made parts from skips. All parts on this robot have been obtained in this fashion.

I'm also spending time this week on making an organiser for the insides to roughly keep everything where it should be when MMM, Explosion or Beauty bounce it off the Lexan arena roof.