Jibril
So work has meant I've had little time to work on this. I did, however, get new metalwork in for the axe and side arms. The new axe assembly is heavy - the lightest configuration puts it at 7kg. The 10:1 ratio box will not cope with that so I will be changing it for a 25:1 box for later on this year, so for now, the original axe remains.

The side arms have been replaced with a 10mm Hardox affair from the 5mm Armox arms. With the change in the thicknesses and the minor reduction in length, it should stand up to more punishment than the original set. The shape has also been remodelled so it should make self-righting easier.

The electrics in Jibril have always been... questionable. For a bit of trivia, Jibril, in its 1.0 form, was the first robot I had an electrical fire in. Anyway, after Newcastle, I set about completely replacing the robots electrics. Common issues included the removable link being too big, the plug socket in the robot often being loose and the soldering... the less said the better. I spent a while resoldering with actual flux! I also spent a bit of time using panel pins in some wood (that some of you may have seen) to hold the links and wires in as I was soldering.

The big thing to do is spread flux on the wire, on the bit that the wire is soldering onto and the actual solder itself to get it started flowing.

After a lot of time, this is what came out of it. Given how beefy it is, I am half pleased with it as a result. It still needs some fettling to make the LEDs reliable and isolation but this is pretty good all things considered.

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The space in Jibril is... very limited so given it appears to fit is verging on a miracle. When I rebuild Kaizen, I will make a mental note to increase the interior space a touch so working on things like this is easier.