After a few months of hiatus, Big Dave 3 is back! So…. what happened? Well, we at Team ARC had a little disagreement with some metal and some bloke called Issac. The original Big Dave 3 had a huge drum, held in place with 15mm plates. It stuck out of the robot body far as […]
Read More →Boing! has gone on a diet – both in terms of size and in terms of hitting power. Let’s display that ever-so-loved spec sheet. 2 x NTM 4258 Propdrive Motors (500KV) 7.2:1 Reduction, 80mm driven diameter – 14.5mph top speed. 2x 6S Batteries, 2650mAH NanoTech’s. ESCs are TZ85A’s, Simon K’d Pneumatic Axe weapon (details below) Tank […]
Read More →As you will no doubt have seen, Chris and Ali have become quite enamoured with Antweights and Featherweights respectively. However, the main goal of all of this in the first place was to get Big Dave 3 up and running. To that end…. redesign time! Big Dave has now been redesigned at the insistence of […]
Read More →First off an apology – this should’ve got posted about 3 weeks back…. but the real world decided to get in the way….. Part of the fun of doing stuff for combat robotics is solving complex challenges. Antweights present a whole host of complex challenges one of which is finding a speed controller that’s small […]
Read More →Warning: Non-technical people may want to look away now! It seems that brushless motor controllers are a dark art to many… unless you happen to be SimonK, or Ellis Ware – the man behind Pulsar. After having a bit of a run-in with the 120A HobbyKing X-Car Beast speed controllers we had (in that they […]
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