After trying too much to tetris in parts to a tiny little machine that was clearly not intended to have a spinner on it, I've decided to just go for it and do a total rebuild for Overdrive. It works out at about 30 quid in materials, plus whatever it ends up costing me for a new scoop so not -too- painful on the budget. It also looks rather different (took a bit of inspiration from Algos, the beetleweight) but here's the rough plan



My intention is to possibly shorten it a little again, to save on that massive amount of dead space but I need to know the sizes of all the parts properly before I can make that call. At current spec, the main body is about 375 wide and about 250 long, I'm 90% sure that'll shrink a little again but again, just waiting on sizes of parts. The chassis is aluminium though now, 15mm 6082 from Aluminium Warehouse and maybe some hardox brackets to shield the edges given I'm probably end-jointing it (no idea what the technical term is). Those curved bits are HDPE too, not sure if I'll keep those though... I'm playing about with ideas that would add some angled hdpe to the sides to stop those pesky drums haha. Any thoughts on the design so far would be much appreciated too!

Should hopefully now be able to get underway with this, now that design problem's over. I'm buying a pair of GR01s too so that the original HardWired 2 will be able to fight in whiteboards and stuff so that'll be fun!