Richie: The £50, 3 week Featherweight

[Rapidrory]

Talking of parading robots around atop the forks, I managed to do just that in both my fights today at Burgess Hill I ended up in the pit both times though as I was shunted in by someone else each time I tried to lower an impaled robot in.. Note to self; bad tactic for melees :L

Richie was much more reliable today; The bolts through the wheels helped loads, and I managed to get it up to 10mm of ground clearance so the drive was much better. Didn't have to do any work on it between fights either despite being launched around, and all I have to do before tomorrow is recharge it (I only have one working battery atm, but at 7Ah it lasts pretty well).

The wheels are already quite worn now as I expected, but I have a few spare 'tires', and I plan to swap those wheels for something better before the next event; I'm currently thinking of using driven wheels at the back, with a belt drive to a pair of wheels at the front, as that's light and should be relatively simple/ reliable. 4WD would be very useful in this case; at the moment I have to lift another robot almost vertical to get the weight back over my wheels so I can drive (looks cool at least )

The ESC still needs more work on the code, but I'll do that when I can face tackling assembler again I'm planning to add a box filter on the signals from the Rx to give smoother control. It'll also act as ramping so the ESC shouldn't lock up as much.