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by daylosh
Mon Aug 01, 2016 4:00 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Engineering as a career
Replies: 4
Views: 26288

Re: Engineering as a career

I got into electronic engineering by a less conventional route, via my local college having achieved a bare minimum at school. I was stuck in dead end labouring jobs and was actually weeding a vegetable patch when I phoned the college and asked about electronic engineering as I'd always been interes...
by daylosh
Tue Jul 26, 2016 3:01 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: Antweight Motors
Replies: 8
Views: 6812

Re: Antweight Motors

Thanks Peter, Variant looks absolutely lethal!

I think I'm going to start with something very similar to Antrax but with wheels. Do you find the tracks vulnerable?
by daylosh
Mon Jul 25, 2016 8:29 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: Antweight Motors
Replies: 8
Views: 6812

Re: Antweight Motors

I like the idea of the PCB chassis as I'm making one anyway so it's like getting a precision engineered, custom part thrown in free!

I'll play around with some designs and post them, see what everyone thinks.
by daylosh
Mon Jul 25, 2016 7:30 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: Antweight Motors
Replies: 8
Views: 6812

Re: Antweight Motors

Thanks for the advice, I hadn't considered the PCB getting damaged.
by daylosh
Sun Jul 24, 2016 12:08 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: Antweight Motors
Replies: 8
Views: 6812

Antweight Motors

Hi all, This will be my first build and I want to make something fairly generic so I can mess about with different motors servos etc. I'm planning on making a PCB, to also act as a chassis, an build the motor controllers on that. I've had a look at some posts and pictures on here and it seems that t...
by daylosh
Sun Jul 17, 2016 8:30 am
Forum: Questions (and answers)
Topic: Advice for a newbie please
Replies: 4
Views: 4210

Re: Advice for a newbie please

Thanks for the help Joey, love the radio conversion! I often wonder if I get more of a kick out of stuff like that than building from scratch. I think for my first robot I'll just get the general cheapo ebay bits and get something going. I'm sure I'll learn a ton on the way.

Day
by daylosh
Fri Jul 15, 2016 10:03 pm
Forum: Questions (and answers)
Topic: Advice for a newbie please
Replies: 4
Views: 4210

Re: Advice for a newbie please

Thanks Gary,

I'm going to try and get to an AWS as soon as I can, even if I don't have a robot. Thanks for the advice, I don't want to motor off down a blind alley and get disappointed before I get started just because of a lack of planning!

Day
by daylosh
Fri Jul 15, 2016 3:30 pm
Forum: Questions (and answers)
Topic: Advice for a newbie please
Replies: 4
Views: 4210

Advice for a newbie please

Hello all, The upcoming new series of Robot Wars has reminded me how much I loved it and always aspired to make a fighting robot. So with that shot in the arm I started looking into it and ended up here. I think I would like to start with an antweight as they seem popular, affordable and it's the so...