First Ever Robot Build: Invertible Featherweight Vertical Disc Spinner

[TheNeonMatt]

This is my first ever robot build and after reading a bit on this forum and watching some featherweight videos on youtube I have decided to try and build (as the title says) a featherweight disc spinner that is also invertible. So far I have decided to use two cheap 12V 550W drill motors for drive and probably two Turnigy 85A ESCs that I plan to try and hack myself, not yet sure on the weapon stats as I'm planning to attach everything drive wise to a chopping board as a test run and work from there.. I don't know the dimensions of all the internals but once I have them I will adjust my google sketchup plans to include them. Any help on materials and thicknesses would be extremely useful as I haven't sorted any of that out yet, (I only have basic tools at the moment so was looking at a HDPE structure with metal plating in places, I'm also planning to get a drill mount/pillar drill to make accurate holes)


Here are my basic plans that let me get the shape and rough size and I'm also planning to add a hinged wedge to the back:

Any help on the design, components, and weapon would be appreciated.