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Spockie-Tech
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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I dont think the MDF class is going to help encourage newcomers that much..
Really, its only advantage is you dont need steel working tools like welders and grinders.
You still need to make and mod drill motors, attach wheels reliably, come up with a beefy esc, radio, batteries, charger, wire it all up, sort out the radio reception and supression, etc. etc.
The RC-Car Beetle class is going to be a lot cheaper (<$100), and you could buy a car and be battling with it that afternoon. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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Thu Dec 15, 2005 9:36 am |
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Spockie-Tech
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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quote:
Originally posted by Glen:
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Really, its only advantage is you dont need steel working tools like welders and grinders.
lol you make it sound like an insignificant thing, but if you dont have those two all your gunna have is an unbuilt robot
Not if you buy an RC car as I suggested.
The MDF class still requires tools, and still requires all the other hard-to-do bits that I listed.
Making the frame out of MDF removes *one* difficult part of building, but still leaves all the other 5 or 10 expensive difficult parts, so it IS an insignificant reduction in the difficulty as far as a newbie is concerned.
If I gave a newbie a pre-fab steel frame, and they still had to buy and mod drills, buy ESC's, batteries, wire it up correctly, buy chargers, make battery packs, make radios work reliably, keep wheels on etc etc, how much have you made it easier ? 10% maybe ? Still leaves 90% of the hard work to be done.
Thats why I suggested RC cars, they remove 95% of the hard work and let people battle quickly. If they like it, they can start to work on a bigger bot while still having fun with their little one. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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Thu Dec 15, 2005 6:46 pm |
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