Overdrive

Overdrive last year was a pretty decent machine I think, hampered by a few last minute construction issues because everyone knows the optimum time for robot building is <48 hours before the thing's supposed to fight. I was going to sell the parts on and start afresh, however issues with postage and not being able to get them to where they needed to go, I've decided to keep and revamp Overdrive and give it another shot at the title.

So, first port of call was un-superquickbuilding the thing. Don't get me wrong, it worked but I could see where the refinements and improvements needed to be made (more on that another time) but the core of it is that it's going to now run (hopefully) 4wd from a pair of Ranglebox Saturn-16s and 775 motors. Oh and some nice lasercut panels.



These are the ones that I had lasercut originally, then forgot bolts exist. The drum therefore was about 10mm too wide to actually fit the panels... To remedy that, countersunk bolts in the disc may be the best option. It'd also look pretty nice too I think, along with paint that isn't orange.

Here's the slightly reworked Cad


Not a whole lot different on the outside, the back end is angled to stop it getting stuck and will probably try doing something to the sides too but that's about it. Don't think I ever posted the cad in full however for Mk1, so there you go!

Another interesting thing here too -


Seems like an axe fits surprisingly well aesthetically, and I'd probably be able to get the reduction in. Not an immediate focus but wouldn't need much modification at all to get an axe on it for non-spinner events and/or whiteboards...