RobotWars101

Happy holidays to everyone.

I got a coffee mug, which cracked on the first time of use.

The BR6000 is an aircraft receiver, and the 90 degrees antenna's are for maximum optimal reception. But that is meant for distances of hundreds of meters, in ants we rarely go beyond 2 meters from our robots.

So if your reception is okay without the antennas sticking out, I'd just leave them.

The new pc power supplies need an adjustment to work, because normally these only work when plugged into a motherboard.

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to- ... hout-a-PC/

But once that is sorted there is no problem in using a PC power supply for your charger.

I just did a test, the sheet works really well, kudos to the maker.

EpicentrE wrote:I'm glad you managed to get it working, Peter. It's possible it's a Vista-specific problem, as I'm running Windows 7 and, as I said above, I had no problems with it whatsoever.

I am on Vista here and it downloaded it as a OTS file just fine.

I was a fan of Robotwars since the first season (with Jeremy Clarkson), and thought it shouldn't be to hard to make one of those. I became a robot member during the showing of series 3, entered my submission for series 4, but didn't get an invite. After a few months I got a phone call from the Dutch...

Well that's just it, I wouldn't do that from the US since they are on 110-120V, and not 220-230V like in Europe.

Thanks for that Peter, that looks pretty good.

what about failsafing? Does it hold position, go to a preset point, or stop sending a signal?

Please do, they look very interesting.