Team Riptide Birmingham Chronicles

[mrsam]

Haven't updated this for a while, so remember how my previous post was all "Lynx is great now, looks at how gr8 it is m9?", well ummm.......

That was after it's very first fight with Spin Cycle which lasted just 16 seconds, typical of the two most powerful spinners to get drawn against each other in round 1, it was my fault in hindsight seeing as i *technically* did reverse Lynx straight into SC's disc, but we won't argue too much over who did what to who and when.

After this frankly laughable showing i decided to sell what was left of Lynx and have a rethink, as the beetle scene stands it all seems to be overly powerful spinners and that's great but i fancied something a little different. I drove Jamie's robot Flatulence in a fight against Spin Cycle in Scotland ( and won by the way) and i really liked it's style so i decided to get myself some of that sweet, servo lifter pie. I've had the idea of a beetle version of the Heavyweight Atomic for a while but i never got around to building it because Lynx, it won't be anything special and i'm making this one all by hand so it'll likely be rougher than scraping your man junk over a cheese grater but i can live with that if it works.

Specs are as follows

Chassis - mix of 3, 10 and 20mm hdpe
Drive - your standard beetle 1000rpm motors
Weapon - Lifter powered by a 40kg torque servo, can also use the front 3mm steel plow for ramming
Batteries - 2s lipo for weapon, 3s lipo for the drive
Esc's - 10a Botbitz

As i said, nothing special but it should be cheap, reliable and at least last a bit longer than the bit shouty thing i built before.

Some pretendo for you


Updates will follow over the next couple of weeks

Cheers.