Using brushless drill motors

[Runsler]

couldn't this "esc" be used? putting the " " here because it is different to the ones we're used to, but doing the same job... only the input signal is different. But maybe there is a workaround for that?
Maybe flash new software on them, or adding a small extern chip to convert that signal (would think that could be as small as the transceivers are).
Software and electronics is really not my strong side, so just throwing in some ideas and hope you guys could pick one out that could work, but possibly nobody else did think of before

[R9000]

I mean I suppose you could hack it to receive PPM signals from the receiver if you know what you're doing, but I'd guess that the characteristics of drill ESCs aren't really what you want for a fighting robot. The same way we don't use brushed drill ESCs for robots, they're adequate for controlling the drill, but not much else.

[Henry Nourse]

Having read this lot we've figured out a way that we're going to try and put it all together. We know that our Brushless ESC's with the motors alright so what we'll try to do is take the motors out and set up some kind of system for holding them using the upper body of the drill in the faint hope that it works!