L.W.S Robotics build diarys

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ok thanks :D
it will probably take me a while to build though because i'll only be able to work on it for 3 hours a week because i need to use my schools dt workshop to do the wiring and I need to find someone that can do welding to build the chassis and shell
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I use plastic for the chassis which can be cut with hand tools. My FW robots are pretty much all plastic.

As for the wiring, when I wired up my first bot I used the guide from the Battle Ratz to do it, its fairly straight forward really it can just look a bit daunting when you have a load of bits lying in front of you.
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i'll just use thick plastic then and as for the wiring i'll get my dt teacher to help because he's built a few heavyweights for robot wars ( that werent too good but they drove which is good enough for me :lol: )
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HDPE is pretty good stuff, about 10mm ish thick will be fine, i use 12mm however
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also, how would I attach wheels to the drill motors or will I have to make my own ?.
and how would I attach the plastic together, bend one solid piece, with bolts or should I melt it together with a soldering iron because I dont know how to do plastic welding ?
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There are wheels you can buy to attach directly to drill motors. You'd be wanting the ones with nut inserts.

http://www.robochallenge.co.uk/Events_a ... nical.html

I would just use screws/bolts to hold it together
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screw it together, i do that and it holds up well to be in tossed around by shwxplosion :P
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I plan on doing as much research on shwxplosion and building my featherweight to specifically exploit its weakness ( if it has one that is )
and if we ever fight shwxplosion at the same time we should both team up on him and take him out first
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shwxplosion? Do you mean Explosion?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-UMAaQ8hg4
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bitternboy wrote:shwxplosion? Do you mean Explosion?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-UMAaQ8hg4
yeah its a running joke from the gametechmods forums
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