RobotWars101

Yeah easiest way would be to get hold of a pair of old servos (or something like a couple of servo extension leads) and cut the wires off them so you're left with the receiver plugs and a length of white-red-black (or orange-red-brown) wire. You can then put both black (or brown) wires into the 0V t...

Yeah thanks, I was looking to blag one for little cost but I've earned some money for dismantling (read: mindlessly trashing ) a hut so I guess I should stop playing the skint card and fork out for one

Hi guys, Hope this is the right place for this. I'm not a frequent poster on this forum so apologies if I'm not following correct protocol. Basically, I'm after a Supertec Pico servo motor ( http://www.modelhelicopters.co.uk/acatalog/7720285.jpg ) that is sitting unused or surplus to requirements. E...

Yeah that's been a bit of an unfortunate clash this year, hopefully something will get resolved before then (maybe with the one-driver-one-robot rule) so that as many people as possible can still compete.

If not, I look forward to seeing it at whatever event we're both at

EpicentrE wrote:Is there even a point in competing if you don't enter into full combat?

Hear hear!!
Looks good Jack, hope to meet it in the arena one day. UK champs?

You say you're using the motor to power a claw? What is going to be the transmission method i.e. how are you going to get the movement of the motor to move the claw. Are you going to have the claw connected directly to the motor output shaft or are you using a threaded rod setup? Or something differ...

The best thing to do is to make your robot as compact as possible, but not so much that it's difficult to wire up or maintain. The basic principle I use is to get as much power as possible into as small a space as possible. The smaller your robot, the less surface area there is to attack. A smaller ...

I really like drum spinners

I wholeheartedly agree

"Not sure it was wise to let newcomers loose with spinners and Lipo's from the get0go" Don't worry, the spinner one was built by one of the experienced Australian builders :) Been following the workshop thread over on Robowars.org and it certainly looked like it was great fun and a fantast...

Just realised that the battery pack in mine is a spare I got when I had my Skysport 6 returned from repair. That was back in 2006, and it's been charged a grand total of two/three times since then, so it probably just needs a good cycle