Thanks, look forward to it! Would be great to drive a feather around just to get an idea of how it feels, especially in a big open space with nothing to hit! Drove around one of the little public-driven things at RoboChallenge last year and wedged myself in the arena wall thrice... Don't worry, I'll be more careful with this!

Tried to do a bit of soldering. First time with XT60s so I wasn't too sure how to go about it. How do you melt solder inside a connector? So I tried soldering just at the top of the terminal. Went alright but it was a bit loose and I didn't belive that's how you're meant to do it Looked it up online and this guy in a video I found pre-heated the terminal a bit, melted some solder into it and, whilst it was 'still hot' quickly bunged the wire in. Piece of cake.
Well, the solder solidified pretty much instantly. Guess I didn't pre-heat the terminal enough or something. Anyway, I was left with solder blocking up the terminal. My attempts to remove the blockage ended with me heating the terminal enough to melt the plastic around it, causing the terminal itself to slide about half way out of the connector housing. I decided it couldn't be salvaged so I cut the wire I had semi-soldered in.

This is with my ESCs. I know, I lack experience (this isn't my first time soldering, I just haven't done it too many times) and I didn't really know what I was doing so I probably should have started with something less expensive. Anyway, the wires come with pre-soldered tips. Nice and neat. I thought I could do that. This guy in the video had just melted some solder over the wire and it had soaked it up. Easy. I ended up with a sort of wiry club that didn't fit into the connector terminal. So, one hour later, I'm minus a female XT60. I'll try to clean up this mess tomorrow and practice my soldering on random little bits of wire and the ruined XT60 so I can figure out what I'm meant to do.

Sometimes I feel like I'm too inexperienced, but then so is everybody before they get some experience in. I guess the difference between you lot - professional engineers, seasoned robotics enthusiasts, specialist-subject university students - is that I'm only beginning to have these experiences.