RobotWars101

sounds pretty cool! Hope it's not suddenly gonna become a theme, as I'm making a Lucky (not a bronco - i prefer Lucky's lifter motion) :D there's a few ways of doing the mechanism, and mine is on caterpillar tracks, so hopefully they won't be too similar. Mine's called Black Carrot, in keeping with ...

Hey, the wife didn't kill me! :D I haven't had much time to mess with the printer, what with taking a break from footling, and having a minor holiday and stuff, but I have had time to print a PLA test cube on BuildTak, and then two cubes yesterday on borosilicate glass. The first attempt worked real...

Yay!

Even tho I can't make it, I'm glad it got sorted out.

Hope not!

I couldn't make it to Brizzol, but if it moves to Warwickish, then I can make it. Must.. lose.. fights!!

Just dropping in to say a thanks for all the info! This payday has gotten me a Creality Ender 3, 300g of green ABS filament (used rigid ink), and some sample filament.

Can't wait to try it all out!

So, I got nothing at all done on Friday night. It's the only day of the week where there's anything on telly, so it's the day I always spend vegging on the sofa with the wife, the cat, and a few cans of Guinness. :D So that left two mornings and an evening. I created the shell between 9am and 11am, ...

.. and now for Suspicious Houmous! The bot still exists, in bits, but those bits are too flimsy for lifting purposes. The lifting mechanism was interesting to make, but also not quite up to lifting accurately, and the axle used up so much room! So, new plan: Same rough dimensions. Gonna use the same...

ooh.. homing entanglement!

erm.. that new plan for Sprouting Potato i mentioned.. well, i made it at work, without the original to look at.. the space for components was identical! :o even the base plate was the exact same size. i thought I'd left loads of room, too. d'oh! with a bit of rearranging, changing wire lengths, and...

the wiring looks okay, so you've probably been hit by the dasmikro curse - some of them tend to self combust after a minute or so.

moan to banggood, and they should refund the cost. they don't all pop - it's just luck of the draw, it seems.