It's Sunday!
Which means more beetle mania, not that sort of beetle mania, the destructive sort. After today, myself and Colin were a little burnt, however we got to work in the sun outside, which is nice. As you can tell, myself and Colin are not exactly sticklers for tidyness, but we manage! This is our work surface in mid electrics for the controllers.
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Our 'table' is actually a reuse of the hydraulic lift table we got for the HW and Grantham, but it has a good second use!

We spent most of our time today getting the motors up and running, we edited our little Vex controllers and after a bit of staring at it going 'Hmm', we got the wire splicing we needed done, and we should be able to run it as needed without anything being damaged from over volting. We are now in a position where both of our drive motors, and their ESC are up and running, so our next set of electrics will be the weapon. Speaking of which, this is currently planned to be a drill bit doing a bit of damage at the front of the T shape, as shown here. The motors i soldered wires onto last Sunday were purposefully given longer than necessary cables, so we can cut them down to size easier later on, as we're not entirely sure of the internal wire layout yet.

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In order to get our motors fitted in the right place with their brace, we had to heat up the plastic pipe with a blowtorch, then pressing down with the brace to force the pipe into the right shape with a flat side to put the screws in. These are still awkward to get in though, as there is a lot of faffing about to get the screws in there, given the motor is also in there, its a tight spot to get screws around.

Overall, after about 8 hours of the 24, we're doing well. One of our largest concerns were getting the ESCs modified as needed, but we did that, and that all worked first time, so we quickly got the other done whilst we were on a roll. So all of our traction is currently sorted, and the electrics left are mostly just transmitter and weapon related.