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I do suggest you try the old polycarb and hacksaw approach to building. It's just a totally different experience, and the bit that I personally really enjoy.
It looks scarily good though man. Have you fixed the pivot issue?

Not quite - the spinners are balanced so there's little to no vibration. Pick up a fidget spinner, spin it vertically, then try to turn it horizontally. Can you feel it trying to rotate in your grip? Because the 2 big spinners on RBMK are not horizontal but angled, if one slows down then the gyrosco...

minionhunter wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2020 1:32 pm So if I'm reading this right, for example whoever owns wedge wedge wedge must own all the cluster bots and all the transmitters for them, correct?

Yup! Shakey owns many Transmitters

4mm minimum? I stand corrected. I wonder where I pulled that 6 from?

Chris does use these forums, though iff the top of my head I have no idea what his username is. Hmm. Okay, just looked it up. cmalton. For the record though - building an arena is NOT cheap, and Chris' is especially flash. Mostly you want 6mm (minimum) thickness polycarb for the walls, with both an ...

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.