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evil_steve
Joined: 06 Sep 2015
Posts: 304
Location: Adelaide, SA
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Well, after an awesome monthly meet where all our antweights except Picobyte got used, time for a post-mortem of how they went.
- The Force - the chassis remained solid, however the lifting forks remained ineffective and the servo again stopped working towards the end of the evening. I've almost finished a scoop attachment which should address the first problem, the second I suspect may be due to using a digital rather than analogue servo. I've swapped it for the identical back-up one, we'll see if it happens next time. Owen's more cautious driving style seems to be working for him, and got him all the way to the final.
- Cut Above - a disappointing event given one wheel kept falling off. Partway through the even Greg pointed out it had a crack in the hub, which then shattered later in the evening. After the event I noticed the other wheel has a small crack as well. I've ordered two more but I suspect that I'm asking too much of them, especially with my driving style.
- Flipper-Guy - works well for what it is, Nathan loves driving it!
- Push-Over - went about as well as you'd expect given how shoddiliy I built it. The scoop had to be glued back on twice, and the wheels had suboptimal grip on the arena and even less on the motor shafts. But by the end of the event with the scoop epoxied on and loaner wheels from James it actually started performing well. I've ordered some proper wheels for it and I think it'll make a decent spare bot.
- Botbitz kitbot - remains a solid bot, and a good one for new fighters to start out with.
Overall it was a really fun night!
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