RobotWars101

Entry 1: Hello! Hello there. after all your great help I have kicked off my robot building. As I like the build diary's I have read here I want to keep one myself, If only for some feedback and advice. So after a few hours building I have this: http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/rr63/Moleye/20140603...

Greetings All

Returned from the first day of the new job (Turns out working with robots!) to find my lemon RX has arrived in the post. Got all me bits now to star making my first ant.

Indeed it is a Apollo 11 reference

Am itching to get going on my first ant now. Hopefully won't take too long to construct

Just was checking the eticicete. Ahem my team shall be "team 1202" Points if you know the space reference to 1202 Was thinking Mastodon for my first bot as it will prob be heavy and lumbering. There's also a progressive metal band by that name and I hope it will last as long as their songs...

Hello So the post man cheerfully dropped a horde of parcels into my house just now. I have everything I think I need to build my first not except the receiver and the battery charger, both of witch are on order. An initial weigh in of bits suggests I'm up to 80g so far. That sabertooth is indeed a b...

First one will prob be a pusher with possible lifter. Something like the battlebot Vlad the impaler to with an option to run upsidedown if i can engineer it.

For now ive ordered a sabertooth to get me going. I am sure that down the line I will change to smaller controllers and probberly become a customer for your boards. Also got a battery and charger on order so once stuff arrives i should have all the core bits to make my first ant. I will try to set u...

Hello Literally just as I posted last I was offered a job. So decided to order some gear motors and wheels. So all I need to order now is battery and charger and a speed controller. Also will prob get a servo mixer. My blade has arrived. Seams a nice enough tx., cheep and cheerfull. Any particular r...

Just ordered my TX (someone in china has literally sold me a lemon). At the moment I am budget constrained (Between jobs) so will probably play around with some servos I have. However, once the money starts pouring in again I think the gear motor/ speed controller sounds the way to go. Keeping it si...

This is all great info. I have ordered on of the 13 pound blades off ebay and will prob get a tx soon.
Its helpfull to know the pairing info for the blade so thankyou.