RobotWars101

This seems bad. One of my robot runs 4 HP motors at 12V on a sabertooth and it is relatively cool after a good 5 minute drive.

Smoking = very bad, you need the magic smoke to stay in the chips!

I just hooked up the red motor and a 3cell together and there is a very noticable improvement over the other gold motor.

I still need to do some fiddling around and have a look. But the 3 cell is great, much faster.

Though can you get away without balance charging a 3cell?

EDIT: Stanley is 135 grams with the new battery so plenty left for armour.

I managed to wrestle all the unnecessary stuff of the sabertooth, nearly killed it though as I accidentally removed a small track but I managed to put a wire in its place. Stanley now weighs 136grams so I will armour him with a small front plate of 0.5mm titanium. I will go back and look to try and ...

DOes the sabertooth really need the heatsink? Bearing in mind it is normally a run sortof all day at events such as robots live.

9g? :o That would give me 13g for some kind of metal plate on the front, or HDPE just something! Also That is one of the 6ch DSM2 receivers, I might swap it for a 4CH one I got today (in the spinner picture). Thanks for the suggestions, Also that's the plan - Insane power. I wanted 6WD through gears...

So after a long delay my shapeways chassis finally arrived! I must say for a first attempt accelerant turned out fantastic, I love it. Stanley has a slight problem with the front two bolt holes for the motor mounts though. Accelerant feels so fragile but is surprisingly tough and the flipper arm doe...

I ordered mine on the..........06/09/11 and was quoted deliver........20/09/11 told in production..............16/09/11 arrived...........................23/09/11 Interestingly I didn't get an email from UPS with a tracking number as I did before. So unless your order is for metal or something exot...

Can I just ask how long peoples shapeways orders are taking?

One of mine was meant to arrive on the 9th but still hasn't.

Do you mean to add something so say that the roller must have a maximum weight of: 150g - whatever the bonus is for the number of walker botlets. So with 2 walker botlets and a roller the total robot weight is 200g, but the roller can only be 100g. It stops the walker bonus being used to give an 'ov...