Another Sunday, which means another update to this build diary!


Today we spent a while reinforcing one side of the bot, and aligning things up for the bearings. Before using a lathe to fashion the rods that'll go through the wheels and to a bearing either side. My first time using a lathe since high school Design & Tech lessons, safe to say i'm a little out of practice and will need to be a little more accurate, but can't expect miracles on the first time in 10 years!

We also managed to weigh the bot, plus everything we have currently that'll go on/in it, and it came to 43.5kg. Colin estimates the bulk of the weapon will be around another 10-15kg, so that gives us plenty of room left for the electronics, which compared won't weigh much at all, and gives lots of space for bulking up armor if needed.

Next week we'll repeat this for the other side and wheel with what we have learnt doing this, hopefully second time around it won't take quite as long to get the measurements correct, and we'll have time to do other stuff on top of that!