Well quite a bit has happened to this robot

It was quite a tight packaging exercise but I squeezed in a linear actuator and a lifter. The lifter though did not have a front fork so was only good for self righting. It was also pretty slow.
It competed once in this configuration. It was fun but touch the throttle and it wheelied like mad. The battery was also too small in capacity and after a 3 minute melee almost exhausted - not good especially when everything had to be disconnected to get the battery out.

The packaging was such a pain that I put a power bulge on the front to aid maintenance. It didn't really cut it so I went off for a much bigger rethink.
So the front end came off completely. I put on a lengthened front. Made the battery box bigger. Changed the linear actuator for a DeWut and remade the lifter.
Electronics packaging is still bugging me but good enough for now. Its at the feather weight limit though some work on the forks should allow me to put the sacrificial HDPE on the front (that's what the holes on the front are for). Oh, and had a slight panic today when I found out I had run of sheet HDPE. So off round the shops for a chopping board. Its much harder to find non-trendy (read as good chunks of plastic) chopping boards than I thought it would be. Tracked something down from Wilkinsons but not exactly what I want but its a lid
So this is what it looks like for now...




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