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Battery powered if we can, though I often also bring a 1-4 power adapter unit thingy.
Generally events are full of nice people who just want to help and offer anyone lacking tools use of theirs.

you'll need to find some other way to supply 5v to the receiver. Not necessarily. Many recievers (for example the dsm2 feather lemon rx that I use) are rated to 2s. Check your reciever, but generally it's still a better idea to run the rx through a bec as it'll be less noisy. (as in the power won't...

Oh, I absolutely second making sure you have full rear-wheel ground contact. This will allow you to reverse off a Wedge that may get under you instead of being high centered and helpless. Regarding printing, I know shakey had success with abs and I know Peter has success with nylon filaments. I pers...

A note with clusters: The Team that operates the Cluster must own all the transmitters that are used for driving the cluster. You can get a driver from another team to drive your other cluster part(s), but they'd need to use your transmitter.

jes wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2020 10:37 am Hmm, taking a look at AWS'59 might be worth doing

You'll wanna watch AWS58. Not that 59 isn't worth watching, but 58 is great.

If I made one, it would suck. I don't believe that for a second! Now MY spinners are gonna suck. Mostly because I'm insisting on using parts I found in skips (BLDCs from old CD drives, the bar itself is gonna be kitchen knife steel, etc), but also because I'm planning to have the spinner off-center...

Or you build your bot entirely by eye, then hope! Well, then be disappointed! But have enough leeway to make some modifications!
Same's true for weight!

wow WOW AAAAAA STOP THINKING YOU'RE STRESSING ME OUT! I kid, that's some dedicated analysis! But seriously - I've never so much as even sketched a robot before cutting my first piece of polycarb! If you come up with some super statistically justified the numbers are with me bot, then I look forwards...

Interesting that there are issues with Win10. I use linux (Mint Sylvia), and didn't run into any problems that couldn't be fixed by a simple google.

Glad you got it sorted!

I'm getting the same thing... that's weird.

I might still have the files kicking around somewhere on my machine. I'll have a look, and if I do I'll stick them on my own google drive and link you to them?