RobotWars101

Haven't wired him back up yet so no video of him driving around yet but I did just about finish building the body of the bot :-) It's a close fit both for weight and for the 4" cube. He'll squeeze in though. Should get time over the weekend to get the wires in and then it's both bots ready for ...

Yup 180mah ones here. And yeah they last a good amount of time.

And Eddie haha strangely enough I'm the opposite, I prefer the look of the polycarbonate after painting. I'm not done drilling and sanding yet or it would be black already.

The Third Law rebuild is well underway! He didn't need rebuilding per se, he was working fine, but I wanted a new project and rebuilding him was going to be lots cheaper than a whole new bot project. Plus - there were a bunch of ways to make him better. Because unlike Manticore with his toffee hamme...

When I started watching ants last year I used to wish there was less drop off in the commonly seen arenas. Then as I watched a lot more footage of tournaments from recent years it won me round a bit. An arena that saw full 3 min fights too often would be problematic. In fact IIRC at ant freeze 5 it ...

@Michael nahh nothing special just a can of cheap black spray paint from wilkos

https://youtu.be/BNpUwIuRuSI I've been fiddling around with the transmitter and I turned ailerion channel down a bit for easier steering and changed the rudder returning limit to -50 which is enough power to retract the arm and to self right, but means the arm is coming back to rest a lot slower tha...

Yay, Manticore is finished....errr....again lol. I tested the old one basically to breaking point. The old 1mm thick chassis just wasn't good enough and the weapon was twisting it quite dramatically. And I even managed to ruin another weapon motor, sigh. But so it goes and as a result the new versio...

1mm thick is really easy to bend and cut. 1.5mm is surprisingly tough to bend in comparison IMO but even 1.5 can be done without heating just with a clamp and a board edge or similar. Ooh and maybe you would have done this anyway but just in case, perhaps learn from my dumb mistakes - if you have an...

Hmmm. Probably gonna be doing a rebuild on Manticore before he ever gets to an official fight. Spent a while the other day chasing my housemate's kid's RC car and trying to bash it. He thought it was great fun and I got to thoroughly test my bot in a kinda combat situation lol. The hammer works ok, ...

So the drunk build bots are your team for the next event right?

Do eeeet