HardWired II

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Unfortunately, it turns out I'm not going to be able to make it to any more events bar the champs next April (I'm assuming they're at the same time again-ish), at the minute at least. Kind of a shame, but it means I can put a little more money into making these robots at least kind of decent. And when I say that, I mean send things off to be watercut and welded or whatever so I can then bolt it all together and not mess anything up

Today I made some wheels for the beetle that ended up as heptagons. You know you've messed up when you set out with a circle in mind, and end up with a heptagon.

Anyhow, little bit of progress on the design portion of both Archangel and HardWired 3. Somehow, archangel is seeming actually doable, got a solid hardox inner body like I mentioned before with HDPE pods attached to that. The front and back plates will probably both be hardox still, which gives me more solid foundations to bolt each side to I guess, but either way it means I can make it wider without worrying as much about it weighing more than a cruise liner, even if it is the size of one. Will post some drawings tomorrow or something, but very rough maths says it should be doable with 15-20mm HDPE, which is great news and means it may actually be able to keep the ludicrously overweighted bar. Which also still needs designing.

Beetles have taken a back step though, given they'll have no outings until at least next year. Shame but prioritising is a thing!