Team Jeopardy: Endeavour

[SamO]

Major Update Time!!!!!

A lot of stuff is happening here at the team jeopardy workshop. Ummm, where to start? Well, we picked up the gas for the welder a few weeks ago so we've had a go at that... with surprisingly good results:





Not to bad for some of my first few welds, picked up a massive sheet of mild steel from our local fabricators that were going to cut up and weld together just for the sake of practise. Also, those massive disgusting craters are where we tested the welder with out argon, so the metal all oxidised. Just did that to check the welder was working probably after about 25 years sat in a garage

Next we moved on to doing some more TZ85 programing. Some of you may have seen that we did Craig's ESC and whilst we were at we did two for ourselves as well. We bought one of those flash tools off of Hobby King as we thought it would make the whole process a bit quicker. To our surprise when we got it out the packet, we discovered that there was a 10 pin idc connector on the end of it as opposed to the 6 pin on our programmer. This led to us doing a lot more work on this than expected as we had to cut of the connector on the flash tool, test to see which six wires were actually being used and then do some crazy soldering to link it all to a six pin connector. The result was this:



Next, doing a little upgrade on Endeavour by putting a gyro in it. This should make it more controllable than it is at the moment as well giving the potential for dad to drive it

Finally, the new feather! Parts have started arriving for it. Got the weapons system, the motors-gearboxes, wheels, ESC's and ordered some metal off John the other day. A quick pic of the bane bots order:



Four 775 motors, two 16-1 gearboxes, four wheels and some other bits and bobs. Ended up having to pay £40 duty tax which I was wasn't too happy about but as soon as I opened the box all was forgotten :P

Going to start knocking up the wooden model tomorrow, and then I've got to spend some more money :'( Oh well, after all it is designed to be spent LOL!!! Oooo, and for any one remotely, at all interested, the new machine is going be called "Intrepid" and should be ready for the champs next year (maybe.....).

Cheers for reading

Edit: Bit of a photo spam... soz!