Since the last post, I've removed all the electrics/motors/batteries etc of The Honey Badger 2 and left with a rather sad looking shell. As I have Kaizen to worry about along with the upcoming FW championships, I need to get The Honey Badger 3 moving so I've made a decision to transplant the current brushed setup from 2 to 3 and then replace it all with the fully brushless setup later on - I have my eyes on some KEDA 56-63 outrunners as drive motors which look very tasty (https://hobbyking.com/en_us/kd-53-20...ner-195kv.html). Once at the stage of being fully brushless, I'll put all the brushed stuff back into The Honey Badger 2.

So here is the design as promised. A lot of this is subject to change (without reason - a Battlebots reference there) but this is what I want it to look like.

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(To be really in keeping, it was drawn on the back of the Robot Wars application I wrote for Kaizen - :P)

Certainly going to be wider than The Honey Badger 2 at any rate, probably about as high as Neophyte for context. The weapon on the back was meant to be a saw but to be honest, anything that rotates can go there or, as the annotation suggests, a spear for non-spinner events.

I had some of the 15mm panelling arrive last night but unfortunately, muggins here screwed up and ordered panels that were too short by about 100mm. That is OK though, they can form part of a internal double deck structure inside the main body so that I do have more usable space in there (I could do that with panels I have now to be honest but it being wider means just that little bit more room). Below is what the main body kinda looks like:

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So the idea is that I'll mount the speed controllers and the motors on the lower deck and then have the batteries/fuse/link on the top deck so I can use all of the 100mm wide space available and have the two 50mm high rails underneath which the top deck can mount to so the normal serviceable stuff can be accessed much easier.

Provided the new set of panels work, I might have something driving by next week