Skipdiving Robotics

[daveimi]

I took another picture this morning so thought I would put it up. After the spike being rubbish I've decided a blade would be better. I spent twenty minutes last night grinding and drilling a piece of metal into a rough shape and bolted it on to see what it looked like. It would need building up, shaping properly etc. but I was greatly enthused by this development. On my "if it looks about right it probably is" scale this looks like a decent addition. The robot is also halfway through a re-wire to 14.4V and has been moved round internally. This is so eternally dull however that I won't bore you with a picture. I am gonna change the name because Rag N Bone sounds stupid.

I am planning robot number 2, only because half of this is wrecked and I thought well if I need to re-make anything I might as well incorporate everything I've learned. My wheel chair motors have been abandoned in the dining room for a bit, and I am getting the itch to build an antweight, only put off up to now by the fact I can build feather 2 cheaper than starting an ant.