Skipdiving Robotics

[daveimi]

Spent some of today getting my heavy weight stuff together. Went and got the heavy body from where I'd dumped it and found it a spot in the back room to live. Also found my other heavy bits and started a stock pile. Thought I'd also put something up of the insides of the shell, obviously just an empty shell at the minute. I'm tied up paying for Christmas at the minute but come January I'm going to carry back on. Not pictured is a charging pack for the SLA's and a load of bracketry and bolts I've gotten together. Just deciding whether to have a go with the wheel chair running gear or get something made with Mags and stuff. The whole thing is suppose to be on a budget and keep telling myself mags will take months to sort out. The entire thing stands me at around £300 so far including motors, batteries and body shell fabrication, as I cut a lot of it myself and then got a friend to weld it all together. I'm thinking about getting some propper brackets CNC'd for the wheel chair motors and building them up as a pair of "pods". They could be unplugged and swapped in a hurry with say four big bolts into the chassis. I'm also in the process of organizing bulkheads and deciding where the axle line will be. Sorry for the long winded description, thanks for reading and taking an interest as ever.