RobotWars101

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My guide for the mg90s that might help.

Grrr, forum ate my post :evil: In short: You only really need plastic for the crusher and they're not that ineffective. Danny Sharples' (aka Anoptimistprime) robot Antidisestablishmentarianism (now called "Craig Charles signed my robot" I think) came third at the last AWS with a lego clamp...

Where's the stupidly thick armour on the front and the duct tape covering the mahussive hole in the top :P ? My new challenge is trying to shoehorn a 5s lipo (yes, really), a lump of metal, two diy escs, custom super grippy wheels and some motors into a really tiny chassis. I reckon it will drive li...

thanks jim :) jordan, i think you are crediting me with more inteligance than i have, can you go simpler? If you look at the servo board there will be at least one probably black chip with many legs. Some servos use two chips, one to decode the rc signal and one to drive the motor. The motor driver...

Harry, how many IC's has your servo board got on it?

If it has two then one will be the H bridge IC and some of them can easily take 15v+. If you're lucky the single ic servos might have two voltage inputs on the chip with one for logic and one for motor power.

Wedges are over rated but at least you'll have grip

Black box is being re built into something much more compact with 100% more wedge, much more grip and M0AR P0WAH!!!

Hopefully I don't blow up any lipo's while making it this time

A lot of the external hard drives in my house have two usb plugs to prevent it from blowing something.

I'd use a powered usb hub or hack a power brick to an usb extension cable and see if either works before shelling out for a new drive.

peterwaller wrote:While being a long way from becoming an expert it is certainly starting to become easier.

We're all doomed now aren't we...

I thought Pro/d can export as an stl file which is one of the one's that shapeways uses.

Just got a new box of toys from work

A lovely wooden toolbox filled with assorted taps, dies, milling bits, callipers, some handbooks and what I think are lathe bits.