Another Sunday, another 3hrs 30 pass.


Over the week, i acquired a few extra batteries, some 1000mAh and some 850 mAh. We decided to use the 850mAhs in this bot, and the others will be spare, some may end up in Hyperion, which i recently purchased. However, Thunderbug was previously using 2200mAh, far too high really. The 850mAh saves us both a lot of weight, and a lot of space internally. Putting it together, it all seems to work fine, although the TX is fairly sure the RX is constantly out of power, this seems to be due to it expect 4x 1.5v batteries, when we were using 4x 1.2v, we can either ignore the horrendous bleeping of it, or get some different batteries., or... just take it apart and unplug the speaker, given it gives on-screen display of everything.
We also figured out that one of the motors was running in reverse, so a quick unsolder and soldering later, the wires were swapped and hooray, same direction!

We got Thunderbug running for a test, including weapon test. It all works! Although, during testing, we found a weakness that some of the bots slowly undo themselves over bumpy and rough terrain, which isn't too much an issue for an arena, they're usually not a roadside bit of tarmac! We'll however definitely see if we can do anything about that. Next week we'll need to confirm the weight of it to make sure the battery has given us the weight we needed to lose, and beyond that, its probably a lick of paint and some final testing and it'll be be just about complete, I reckon!

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