Upgrades being considered for Bolts v1. (In no particular order)

1. Shorten the body. Bolts was the largest FW by surface area at Colchester and has loads of unnecessary space inside it.
2. Minimise the wood. The 10mm HDPE withstood far better than I expected, reducing the wooden under chassis would save weight to use elsewhere, such as a weapon or thicker HDPE.
3. Replace internal connector blocks with XT60s.
4. Shock mount the internals.
5. Get new, wider wheels with more grip, we were sliding all over the arena with little control.
6. New transmitter/receiver. Devo 7 with Deviation firmware has been recommended. Solving our signal problem from the event.
7. Redesign the front wedge. Metal sheet, or full metal front plate.
8. Move up from 12V to 18V motors and batteries.

Possible Weapons

1. Chain Flails, the original weapon planned before we ran out of weight and time to incorporate them.
2. A linear actuator powered lifter in the middle of the top panel.
3. An automatic or exponential flipper, similar to what is seen here:

or here:

4. Whatever you call this style of lifter. It looks interesting and is built into a similar body shape to Bolts.