sounds good to me, but i would go for i windscreen wiper motor for a flipper.

also were are you living at the moment Andrew?

why do i feel ignored?

heres windy in its current state:
http://www.robowars.org/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=715

Probably because you live on the opposite side of the country to where most of us are..

Dont give up hope though.. not so long ago, every robot builder in Australia lived on the opposite side of the world to where most the action was, yet we still managed to get the ball rolling here..

It might take a little while though - its taken us 2 to 3 years so far. with fewer people living over there, your number of potential robot builders/spectators is naturally lower, but stay enthusiastic and eventually you'll get noticed.

Perhaps the recent new forum member "Phoenix Rising" will help kick things off if he's a bit older and more experienced than you couple of young guys..
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I'll do what I can. I'm working on my Featherweight now.
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Oh, and Windhammer, I live near Rockingham.
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thanks, you dont live to far away.

i just went and put windy on the scales and he only wieghs 8kgs

Yeah, all of my componentry seems to mass at about 9Kg. Not that that is much of an issue, as the differenece in top speed between 9Kg and 13.6Kg with the motors I will be using will be significant.
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nice!, is it possible for you to put a couple of pictures up of your progress?

ive renamed my bot teddys revenge.

http://www.robowars.org/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=727

just thought you might like to know.

long time no post.
i also have busy but haven't had much time to make it move i've got every thing but the damn escs. The servos are to damn fidily to make the thing drive straight and take up a little to much space.

hmmm that ibc looken mighty fine bout now .

be great to hear from you and to know where comps are being held. When you can pm me you details
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best quote ever:: "Those Gas-Turbine style warehouse heaters arent illegal, and neither is remote controlling one as far as I know."

Well, I'm still putting the featherweight together, but will have to work out how much time I have to put together a competition locally for the Feathers we have.....I'm seriously considering starting an undergrad degree in Secondary Teaching/Physics, and that is taking a lot of my time researching educational institutions. We shall see what happens when.
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me and doug had our first fights and doug won the fist match and i won the second because doug's ibc had a moment.
doug will have more no dout.

if any one has any video hosting sites we should be able to put up some pics.
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best quote ever:: "Those Gas-Turbine style warehouse heaters arent illegal, and neither is remote controlling one as far as I know."

well looking at the videos we had 3 fights... the first one were i won, then the second match were you put that pan thing on your bot and then your bot screwed up after about 30 seconds, then our nexted match were i stoped working for no reason at all.
Doug: 2
Alex: 1

well me and alex battled agian yesterday.
we had 4 fights, 3 wins to me and 1 draw were we both had motor trouble,
sorry if it sounds like im braging lol.

hmmmm i think i might rebuild coz im bored with this bot already.

do you have any pics or video from your battles ?

They're always good to show others what youve been up to..
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