More Beetleweight Progress!
More Progress! Our next step was to cut the rest of the chassis pieces out of 7mm chopping board. We cut a battery compartment piece and the two weapon supports out of this, then cut a lid and back panel out of 5mm plastic.The next thing we did was mount the wedge pieces and bolt the forks to them. The wedges are the same 7mm plastic as the chassis, and are held on to the side panels and the weapon supports with countersunk screws. The forks are corner braces bought from B&Q and bolted to the wedges so they can be removed if needed. They are also bent out slightly so they can run along the floor. We turned our robot to four-wheel drive with the help of four plastic pulleys we found and drilled to fit to the motor shafts at the back and the M4 bolts at the front. The transmission was provided by two identical elastic bands. Not perfect, but still an improvement on the previous two-wheel drive! After this we ordered a large number of things, including our brushless motor and esc, a