RogueTwo Robots

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Been a bit quiet here lately, partly due to the robots being mostly ready, and partly due to getting things organised for the GSC event. Now that that's been and gone, I can turn my attention back to champs business.

The GSC event was a good chance to give the bots a pre-champs run-out, which was handy as it brought up some issues. Drumroll is having problems with its left-hand drive. The pins on the output shaft popped out on Friday (repaired) and again on Saturday (gearbox replaced), then today it stopped working again. Haven't had a chance to look at it today to find the latest problem, but I'll be giving it a thorough strip down and service in the next couple of days to try and rectify the issue. Also still need to re-balance and paint the drum.

Carcinus's XL has stopped working/continued misbehaving in the same way it did when in Drumroll. I really need to get it sent to Rick Maas for repair but I was holding off until after the champs. However I'll now need to look at putting some spare Botbitz controllers in there. Also got a couple of cheeky additions to add to it before the champs and I'm keeping those under wraps so you'll just have to wait till Saturday

In other news, and in keeping with the tradition of Scottish roboteers moving machines between each other like a game of pass the parcel, I now have a new team member

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So that will be a new source of money drainage. Been keen on it for a while now and Tony was happy to sell it; it will be an ongoing long-term project to bring it back up to running condition. Not a lot of internal room but that should suit my style of building quite nicely.

FW updates to follow during the week.