Quote Originally Posted by craig_colliass View Post
Reading lots of threads on this forum dealing with Heavyweight robot builds.
Next go along to an event or two, to see how other people have made their robots.
Make it easy to fix! It will need lots of fixing.

It is harder than you think,
It is costlier than you would want,
But more fun than you can imagine.
Firstly to answer what you said. We dont currently do spinners in the UK due to safety restrictions.

Secondly, cant agree more with Craig and i highlighted the main points.

Please get yourself down to an event, i done that for 2 years before i started and it helped me alot (obviously you can just come once and start from that, it helps alot to see the robots first).

Secondly, if you want to dive in the deep end - build a championship Featherweight. That really is the deep end, and it still has all the advantages of building a feather over a heavy. It can even be a spinner, however i cannot stress how dangerous that can be with inexperience. Id personally advise against it and build a rambot first, you will then have a base to work off and weaponise (as craig says, build up from that).

Alot of stuff i buy i just get from Ebay, Hobbyking, or just doing google searches for exactly what i want aswell.