Thanks everyone! Sorry I can't reply to everyone just yet (will do when I'm next on!) been and still am quite busy (cheers, Sixth Form) but I've now got the funding required for HardWired II thanks to my 18th being a few days ago, and I'm getting some scrap materials shortly so it'll be well underway!

Still going ahead with the spinner plan, going to run a high torque, moderately high RPM brushless driving a steel bar spinner, then hopefully this brushless drive will go according to plan too... the motors I've been looking at if I remember rightly are similar RPM to a drill motor, and I've got some spare drills about so it's just a case of experimenting with what works and what doesn't... they're only 2/3S I think, so I don't think they're anything amazingly powerful but I'm sure I've figured them out to be powerful enough to give the robot enough of a kick. At the end of the day, I'm hoping the bar spinner's powerful enough to do the talking end, and the drive is just as nippy as possible. Probably not the best way to do things, but I'd just like to try out something a little bit different in terms of the whole setup where I can. Who knows, I might just stumble upon a winning formu- actually, no I won't... but still, it'll be fun I'm sure!