Newbie questions - main one - how cheap can a bot be? Advice please. :)

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Hi Niels - thanks for the welcome and reply.

What you wrote about prefixed channels actually answers one of those 'more interesting' questions I said I had - "will I need a different model of receiver/transmitter for each person or can the channels be switched?". I'm guessing then that only more expensive models can have the frequency changed? I was hoping maybe it could be altered some way... Still maybe if the cheaper models are fairly standard I can get away with just buying receivers and using controllers from old toys I'm sure will be stowed away somewhere... I'll have to look into it.

Can I ask what you think the minimum total price for a robot can be? (though I see you're in Holland, so I guess the market will be a little different) This is bearing in mind that chassis and weapons, anything non-electronic really, will be made from stuff around the house and competition will be light hearted at most - the parts don't have to be high quality as long as they work.

As for building a quality robot all together... Do you mean to enter a proper event, rather than doing our own?

That is an awesome idea! I hadn't actually considered it myself as, to be honest, I was unaware there even was a fighting robots scene until I came here. It would be easier to convince everyone to do our own, less serious, competition first I think (depending on cost) but if that went well I could certainly throw the idea out there!

Course... you'll be seeing many more silly questions if we do end up building a proper bot.