After taking part in the beetleweight competition at AWS 44 I have decided that a few changes need to be made to mine to make them a little more reliable and solve the issues that appeared at the event.

Soundwave worked pretty well overall, the disc mechanism is excellent and provided some big hits and plenty of damage. The drive is also very good but it simply is not big enough to contain a large enough battery.

I have redesigned the chassis to have a larger back end to house a new 3s 2200mAh Lipo and free up some space for the electronics. The previous one was only 1.1kgs so there is plenty of weight. The sides will be covered with 1.5mm steel again as this withstood direct impacts from RPM with only minor scratches. This time the chassis will have proper spacers machined to make sure the whole thing stays together properly.

This is the new version alongside the old



I am also working on a vertical spinner after getting hold of a new disc (not the one shown here). This will have a larger brushless to spin it but will largely be the same internally as Soundwave.