TB4.5MCESP1 Update 3

chorl

It’s that time again where I need to mill down the corners on the build budget. The total cost to make the SP1 upgrades (granted it’s more of a complete rebuild) is over the $500 mark. That’s alot. That’s more than I care for, so some of the neat features have to be scaled back.

Yeah, because… I need to eat and buy textbooks too.

It looks like I’ll have to settle for a set of secondhand Banebots ESCs – this is a somewhat suboptimal setup, but I can, again, make provisions for extra cooling. The lithium battery pack is definitely staying – I’m not going to let batteries be the limiter of the bot’s potential again. The fancy charger I have currently lined up might also get downsized – even though it’s an investment I want to make since it can charge about any chemistry and balance lithium cells, and so will be usable for many projects.

Here’s a hypothetical situation using 3 Banebots ESCs. They fit in the same spot, and are more compact, but are rated for lower amps. Not out of the limits, but the overhead is lower than I’d like it to be.

Stay tuned for more! Maybe I’ll ditch the 2024 for the arm and wedge, because that stuff is ass-hell expensive!

Is it too late to ask for Christmas presents? Godspammit!

in suburbiā atlāntae

chorl

Well, I’m here. I’ve actually been here since yesterday, but nothing much happened and I was too tired to bother writing up a post anyway.

So anyway, the house is in a mild Idiocracy condition since I wasn’t around for 4 months to keep things in running order. I should have known as soon as I pulled up in front of the house -one of my large hard drives was propping up the garage door for cat entry.  My parents have a habit of going through my cruft piles to find large blocky metal things (of which there are plenty) which they then use for a variety of things – fish pond weights, doorstops, and apparently garage door spacers. I’m glad I didn’t have to dig out that drive (it’s an oooold 5.25″ full height drive) from the fish pond.

Some of my drill bits are also broken and I’m going to just take their word for it that the cordless drill battery hasn’t been charging for the past 3 months. My parents, although they are very well meaning people, aren’t exactly skilled in the industrial arts.

Some random appliances and household objects need servicing, which isn’t a problem.

The agenda now that I’m here is as follows, in no particular order and with no particular priority:

I also will be helping coach NGHS Robotics after the new year. That should be interesting!