Richie: The £50, 3 week Featherweight

[Rapidrory]

Yeah, I have thought about upgrading to 4wd; would definitely be a much better solution. Obviously it'd require a fairly major redesign though, and a new ESC; don't think my ESC would support 4 motors, unless I went for the 2 motors with drive belts to the wheels approach, but that's not the simplest of mods... maybe tracks? Would also need to upgrade to lipos to free some weight (would save another 2kg), which I am planning to do anyway. However the ESC has no undervoltage protection, and it wouldn't be a trivial task to retrofit it...

As for the armour, I know it's a little on the thin side, but it's all i had time and weight for, and it was designed to allow a lot of flex so it can absorb impacts. I do plan to add more armour to the front at some point, for now i'll be sticking to the whiteboard events :P

Whatever happens, I'm not planning on making any major changes until the summer; Got exams to do, then flat out to get things ready for next AWS... After that I can get back to FWs :L

The only bit i've got to fix after all that is my driving; Having never really played video games, my use of a controller is pretty poor!