Team Jeopardy: Endeavour

[SamO]

Yeah we thought it might be that. Will have to buy a new bind plug though since I lost it when I was young
Ohhh, are receiver is a AR500.

[MikeNCR]

I've actually found a few mixers that don't failsafe properly.(for some reason they seem to just retain the last output)

http://www.robotmarketplace.com/products/0-DGEVMXR.html this one I have had failsafe correctly, then others not without changing anything. If you have a dx6i or similar, you may be able to reprogram the mix to get full speed out of it, which I'm doing now on my 1lb bot Algos.

[SamO]

The summer holidays are finally here!!!!!
Made some progress on Mini E today:

Soldered capacitors to the motors as well as the ESC's. Connected it up to a bench power supply and tested it to see if it works, and indeed it does. I've got a few more bits and bobs to order until I can make anymore progress (duff: did you get our PM?).

Ohh, and in other news, I tried rebinding my transmitter and Endeavour still doesn't fail safe with the external mixer. Any body else got any ideas?

[duff]

Yes, sorry I didn't reply, I've been a bit busy finishing off my FW. How many do you need, is it just two? PM me your address and I'll dig them out and send them over on monday. Are you coming to the AWS?

[SamO]

Yeah, its just the two, will send you are address in the morning.
Would love to come, but its a bit far us at the moment (need to twist my dads arm a bit more to go further a field )
If there's one nearer to home in the future though, we will defo be there!

[SamO]

In the light of the AWS this weekend, I decided to crack on with Mini E. Yet again a very productive weekend:

Probably doesn't look like that much has changed since I last posted, but its wired up now and works!!!!! Just got to sort out the scoop and it'll be ready to rock and roll.

I did do a video of it but it was pretty dodgy so I'll do a better one tomorrow

[SamO]

Here you go:

[ChrisKazoo]

Ohh, and in other news, I tried rebinding my transmitter and the Endeavour still doesn't fail safe with the external mixer. Any body else got any ideas?

If that mixer is the Turnigy V Tail Mixer I had the same problem, but changing to the GWS V Tail Mixer solved the problem

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GWS-V-TAIL...item20c29a50cf

[harry hills]

I'm impressed with that ant. I think the wheels could do with being a bit smaller though, stop the frame rocking so much?

[SamO]

Harry: Thanks
That problem will be sorted out when the scoop is attached. All the weight will be at the front as well as the scoop being inline with the wheels, keeping the robot the same distance of the ground around all sides

Chris: Thanks for the link, I think I'll be ordering one soon