Team Health & Safety - First Time Builder

[Zenith]

As it turns out these installments turn out be a monthly ordeal. See it as a testament to my Carribean roots.

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I received the final order from Technobots recently, which contained some more hubs and wheels. I went with the Fingertech variety, simply because I'm already familiar with them and it's always useful to have spares that can be made from my gf's beach footwear. I just hope she won't notice her Minions flipflops have gone missing at some point (I think I'll just blame the neighbour's cat, out of spite for it taking a crap in our garden the other day).

Once again though, I was disappointed in the sheer lack of drawing in my order. I'd requested a drawing (or photo - I like to lower the bar now and then) of the best UK fighting robot along with my order, but sadly there wasn't even a print out of M2 in there. Much sulking was to be had.

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With all parts finally in possession though, I could finally start to get stuff lined up properly. First, I got my new transmitter sorted out by using the Viper to bind the receiver. I'm leaving the Viper in one piece throughout this process, mainly because I want to really build my first bot from scratch and I feel that using the Viper for that is like using cheat codes. And cheat codes are things snotty teenagers use in Call of Duty whilst shouting all kinds of sexual expletives about either you, your mom or both.

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Anyway, I digress. Along with the hubs and wheels I'd also got me some excessively bulky mounts for the motors, but soon enough these proved rather useless on something that requires armour. Yeah, good job on making a good bench testing setup there. Extra XP for me. If you have some tips for a simple and slightly less corpulently challenged motor mount solution, please do comment.

Did I actually get it going though? Ofcourse not, that's something for next month. Gotta get myself a soldering iron, along with some other tools. And buying tools is fun - it's like the men's equivalent of buying shoes.

Maybe I should ask my gf to come along and carry my bags.