RobotWars101

It's finished! Key facts: Yellow Chassis: 3D printed TPU Front armour: 1.5mm polycarbonate Weapon: 23g (I think) 4.7mm grade 5 titanium 53mm diameter single tooth Motor: DYS BE1806 2300kV ESC: Turnigy Multistar BLheli_32 21A (safely over-specced) Drive: N20 gearmotors with built-in ESC RX: 4 Channel...

https://i.imgur.com/UvWFY7s.jpg Here's the stuff you want to see so I've put it first, out of chronological order haha: Weapon test1 (rips a chunk out of a cutting mat) https://imgur.com/a/FS9xexU Weapon test2 https://imgur.com/a/wX4T7iQ Aftermath pictures and pictire of the weapon disc https://img...

I'm having to make minor changes to pretty much every part of the bot. It'll be another week at least before I'm ready to print the next test chassis. What's happening: I'm going with 30mm wheels over the 25mm I originally intended. This unlocks quite a few benefits. 1. I get 2.5mm more space at bac...

I got a test chassis printed in PLA and boy am I glad I did - it has thrown up numerous issues. In general I think I've pushed to keep it as compact as possible and unfortunately I'm now paying the price. https://imgur.com/gallery/ackSYQE Basically: The weapon does not appear to sit centrally. I'll ...

It's alive! My jank soldering and hasty y-cabling has actually done the job. Had to flash the Taranis with some non-eu firmware to enable the D8 mode the rx needed. Went ahead and mixed the channels, that's all done, ready to drop into the chassis! And I'll need to re-solder a few things to cut out ...

Great - I think I understand. Basically I should wire it up like this?

The RX says it's OK for operating voltages up to 10V, so I guess it's OK to wire directly to that. How do I actually supply power to this receiver then? It only seems to have 4 sets of 3 channel pins and that's it. Would I split the battery leads to go direct to the weapon ESC and to the RX? Thanks ...

It says the BEC is OPTO. I think that means it is not safe to power the receiver with it? https://hobbyking.com/en_us/multistar-32bit-20a-0-lite-before-is-18a.html?___store=en_us Although the receiver says operating voltage of 3.5-10V, so that would presumably be OK? https://www.banggood.com/2_4G-4C...

Next stage of the operation I could use some help with. Am I wiring this up correctly? The battery will be connected to the ESC only, and the ESC has only 2 wires that go to the receiver, which will power the receiver and both drive motors? I was expecting it to be worse. Also do I need to throw in ...

Yes I know cheese is nothing to do with stars. 2 separate themes, deal with it! I thought about re-naming the team as Team Käse Chiefs or Team Fromage and In Charge or Cheesus Saves but ultimately, I like stars as well as cheese so oh well. Thanks to everyone that helped me out sourcing electronics ...