RobotWars101

Seems common sense, but thought I'd best not assume. By "the driver" I assume this also includes anyone on the driver's team, is that correct? My friend might be bringing one or both of his kids along to an event with the plan for one of them to do some driving; but if he's driving a spinn...

You should give designing your own pcb a go it's genuinely a good experience and fun if your a nerd and are avoiding doing A level work. you can then use a microcontroller to do everything necessary for antwights with non of the unnecessary things that come on a pi zero such as hdmi and all that. S...

[The servo] I was going to power separately using a voltage reg circuit and the wires from the receiver is this possible? If you mean, you VCC/+ and Ground/- for the servo will come from the voltage regulator, and only the Signal/PWM will come from the RX, this is perfectly possible; I've done the ...

So, NEA is nearly finished.. one more glob of hot-snot to go. Aluminium Chassis and Armour Soft steel flipper with thin plastic 'wedge' powered by 9g micro servo 2 x Pololu 100:1 Micro Metal Gearmotor HP 2 x Pololu Wheel 42x19mm Pair 2x Generic Brushed ESCs FrSky D4R-II 4 Channel 2.4ghz Receiver Les...

How have you secured your wheels? So far, friction and prayer! Once I've stopped fiddling I might just add copious amounts of glue. Annoyingly, it appears that even the teeny tiny flipper is overwhelming the ESC and causing it to cut out as soon as the servo encounters any resistance putting the ro...

Managed to install a flipper of sorts; it's mostly designed for self-righting, which is does swimmingly.

Currently at 150g exactly, but there's quite a lot of servo wire to come out, which should give me some wiggle-room for optional extras like screws to hold the Armour on!

:lol: Accidental Torque and Aerodynamics test Aluminium Armour looking good; and I've saved myself enough to mount a lightweight flipper/lifter on the 'back'; I found it spins much too readily in reverse, but I managed to get my transmitter to reduce the steering input when it's going backwards, now...

They're not the cheapest by a long shot, but Hobbytronics have 4 ratios of the Pololu motors with two different shaft lengths; and lots of compatible accessories.

Is using it without a brake going to Be harder to drive? What happens if you want to not drive into the pit? Thanks for the link. Both options have reverse, whacking it into reverse seems to be a pretty effective stopping mechanism and even with 'no brake' it doesn't coast at zero throttle, it's ju...

Thanks! I used a pair of these 10A ESC Brushed Speed Controller (WITHOUT brake is the right one!) with 50:1 geared micro DC motors. I've actually just found another type that's 1/10th the weight that I'm going to try out. BUT it doesn't have a BEC; and I'm not 100% sure they support 'reverse'. so I ...