Featherweight Champs 2016

Not gonna write too much about this given my only fights were with Massacre which got Massacred, and Bananageddon Overdrive 2: Electric Boogaloo suffered much the same fate after not being charged (oops)

As a result, it's time to look at plans for next year. I'm not so sure where my financial situation is going to be at by then so I'm putting anything overly ambitious on the back burner and bringing back Hardwired 2 with a little twist.



As part of an upgrade to brushless drive motors, Hardwired is going to become a full body lifter, inspired by Team Toad's Polar Vortex. I've got a few ideas of how to achieve this, but the favourite at the minute is going to be a heavier duty gearbox (most likely a Saturn) with a brushless outrunner to save space, geared to some kind of linkage underneath the machine. Another idea I'd have liked to pursue would be 80-100mm hubmotors for the wheels, but I expect that to be reasonably expensive (that being the main reason for not building Zen, horizontal spinner, for 2017)

It's gonna be a tough challenge but should be rewarding and something quite different if I manage to pull it off. I would have gone for a simple overhead lifter but I thought it'd be interesting to go for a more unconventional setup, and so that I can still make use of the needlessly thick hardox on the front of the machine haha.

Fhqwhgads

I'm sure it's probably wrong on some kind of level taking this seriously, but I've retired Fhqwhgads 3 from competition to make way for Fhqwhgads 4, cardboard mockup attached:





As you can see, it's a lot smaller than the old Fhqwhgads. As a result it's a LOT more of a squeeze, considering it has 5 motors, 5 Escs, a 4s battery and a lifter mechanism to fit in there. It should be a pretty potent machine, the wheel size is dropping slightly but gaining grippier and wider tyres so push should be even less of an issue, and it will actually be built properly for once (yay) so it might not start falling apart after 2 fights. Hoping to debut it at Burgess Hill but we'll see. It's predecessor will be there regardless.

And that's about all for now, regular updates again soon - just dealing with the end of my final year which is just a barrel of laughs and sunshine and all those nice things.

Stay tuned!