Novice Here - Any Beginner's Advice?

[Scottie]

Greetings! I pretty much agree with what Ocracoke on everything he says. As for your motor selection for wheel drive, those are brushless dc motors used for quadcopters and are not optimised for robot drive. I am however using a variant of those motors on my bot, but i am using a gearbox in between motor and wheel. That gearbox comes from a different motor and was a little bit difficult attach.

as for your speed controller, again those are optimised for quadcopters and planes and will only allow the motor to spin in one direction. You will have to reprogram it to get bi directional motor control and im unsure if it is possible to repogram those (I am happy to be proven wrong on that!). If you wish to stay on the brushless motor path then I would recommend something like the Afro 12A esc (these will have to be reprogrammed using an usb programming tool) :

https://hobbyking.com/en_us/afro-12a...-firmware.html

or these:

https://hobbyking.com/en_us/multista...2a-0-lite.html (you will need a voltage regulator for your rc receiver if you use 3s batteries or above)
you can reprogram them with this:
https://hobbyking.com/en_us/multista...gram-card.html

You will need a gearbox from a 25GA 12V motor from the 500rpm varient:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12V-DC-60...53.m2749.l2649

OR

you can go the brushed DC motor route, get the 1000rpm varients from the like above, and avoid butchering the gearboxes and use brushed motor controllers like these:
https://www.vexrobotics.com/276-2193.html

sabretooths are pretty common aswell but i do not know what varient people use.