Robo Challenge - Predator

**james...venom** · 12th February 2013, 18:48

Cheers Jamie! Lets hope it comes good, would be a good battle 1v1

**james...venom** · 22nd February 2013, 13:57

Had a harsh draw for the UK championships which sees Predator against 2 nasty spinners. I do have around 2 kg to play with but i may just leave it if the machine does well in testing. I need to beef the front of the chassis up but other than that it may just get some lead in the base to lower the cofg. Yesterday i made an end stop buffer for the head to stop it going to far back and hitting itself. Just need to make a little pic up so we can add limit switches to the head and arms.

Here comes the champs!

**typhoon_driver** · 22nd February 2013, 14:03

magnets?

**james...venom** · 22nd February 2013, 14:06

Not keen on magnets as I havent seen them work well that often. I may try some for testing and see how it goes. Im also rapidly running out of space lol.

**james...venom** · 27th February 2013, 13:11

Surprised to find mounting the weapon speedo and links is the biggest challenge of this build!

**PJ-27** · 28th February 2013, 21:49

Unimportant bits then....

**james...venom** · 1st March 2013, 10:47

The links are a real problem... where on earth do you put them on Predator with out being too close to the disc or the arms

**PJ-27** · 1st March 2013, 13:16

For the last 2 years we've done the links the night before :s It's a serious consideration that people always overlook.

**typhoon_driver** · 1st March 2013, 13:58

james I would worry more about keeping it from the disc. I'm sure the arms could hurt if you caught your fingers in there but generally i like to have my link in a location that when I'm working out channels on the tx and it inevitably goes to full throttle without my input i can easily get the link out.