Hi all, Ive been an avid fighting robot fan since RW1, and when my son came along, he istantly loved it too. Ive always wanted to build up a bot (mainly for my son), but I havent got the skills or budget to go for a heavyweight, having seen what can be achieved with featherwights (we were at Debenham, sorry cant remember the bots name, but it was a vertical spinner that fired another bots spike off into the arena wall), I figure that might be within my capabilities. As a first bot I was thinking of going for a thick plywood base, and using the technobots WW motors for drive, but after that Im a bit stuck, what sort of speed controoler would I need to run the motors, what capacity battery would I need too? IS model car RC OK to use in a fighting robot or is it the wrong frquency (Im talking about 1:10 th scale buggy RC here)
Any advice, or links would be appreciated

Regards

Graham