The Fhqwhgads is dead, long live the Fhqwhgads

Burgess Hill was this weekend, and with it came the Beetleweight Tag Tournament. Long Story short, Fhqwhgads was paired with Incomplete Control and together went undefeated for the win thanks to some clever tactics (people like to team up on the champ, who knew?)



I felt Fhqwhgads was lacking in power this time, turns out this was thanks to the soldering on the motors. Ellis (the man behind Ranglebox.com) spoke to me about it saying that it's the heat from soldering that can damage the brushes and cause the motors to lose power. Explains how the machine went from being able to push Limpet XS around the arena with ease to not being able to push anything at all. The foam wheels probably didn't help either in all fairness, they were spinning a lot too.

As a result, I've taken the decision to retire the robot from competition entirely and start work on a totally new machine for the Beetleweight championships, if I can even afford it. I'd hate to have it just get obliterated in round one because of a few inherent design flaws that are starting to become all too apparent... On the bright side, undefeated past that incident with Newton. My longest win streak ever! In fact, may well be my only win streak higher than 1...

Wodge


(image blatantly stolen)

Brand new addition to the team, Haz (Massacre, Flatpack, other cool robots) gave me the chassis to Wodge at the weekend which was promptly brought in to replace the alarmingly unfinished Lobster Knife Fight (more on that another time). Was rather happy to have this one on the team, it was actually the inspiration for Fhqwhgads' almighty wedge of derp which I still maintain was what won me the competition. It sure as heck wasn't driving skill or build quality...

Wodge worked alright til it set fire to itself. Yay Botbitz 10a's.



Future for this one is basically to be a more sensible Fhqwhgads 3, with more brushless and probably magnets. May add a weapon at some point if I have weight/ability to.

The Rift
[menacing laughter]

Featherweights
Also because one instance of kindness wasn't enough, Haz also gave me the old Massacre (2014) chassis. It's quite a nice little base for going and building next year's featherweight champs entry on - going for an overhead lifter or disc. More on that when I get to it!