Fleaweight build

So im building this fleaweight, its awesome! it has a spinner and is powered by speed hacked servo’s. this is how the build went!

20rh February 2011: okay so good stuff is happening ATM! for a start the new budget transmitter arrived from chinay, and so did 2 spectrum clone receivers! so i wired it all up and…nope nothing happened, we were confused, and irritated. Dad put forward the idea that we try a different lipo, and it worked first time (upon further inspection it turned out the old battery had dropped below its minimum voltage) AND the brushless system fired up as well! so im guessing it must have been the battery all along…yay we solved a problem

i also took a video

12th February 2011: drive test went well, im in need of a new transmitter because it really is hard to controll with my currents one, so new one in the mail.

i need some help on the brushless too…link to the thread here: http://www.robotwars101.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1561

10th February 2011: stuck stuff down and made chassis 

http://s1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd428/Jack_Orr/?action=view&current=IMG_0803.jpg

the fronts at a angle so when i mount the motor it will be at a angle

http://s1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd428/Jack_Orr/?action=view&current=IMG_0803.jpg#

http://s1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd428/Jack_Orr/?action=view&current=IMG_0803.jpg#

the servos are speed hacked, its really nippy! almost too nippy…

9th February 2011: The brushless setup is here!

http://s1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd428/Jack_Orr/?action=view&current=IMG_4114.jpg

the motor has these cool connectors, but i think they may be cut off to save weight

http://s1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd428/Jack_Orr/?action=view&current=IMG_4117.jpg

http://s1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd428/Jack_Orr/?action=view&current=IMG_4116.jpg

it came with some other cool extras

http://s1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd428/Jack_Orr/?action=view&current=IMG_4118.jpg

screwed on the mounting plate

http://s1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd428/Jack_Orr/?action=view&current=IMG_4121.jpg

the ESC is tiny!

http://s1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd428/Jack_Orr/?action=view&current=IMG_4120.jpg

and this is the motor and ESC together

http://s1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd428/Jack_Orr/?action=view&current=IMG_4124.jpg

servos are scheduled to arrive tommorow so it should all kick off this weekend!

8th February 2011: urr so yeah, progress!

http://s1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd428/Jack_Orr/?action=view&current=IMG_4111.jpg

http://s1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd428/Jack_Orr/?action=view&current=IMG_4113.jpg

not much XD but my brushless setup is at the post office depot, and the speed hacked servos are being sent tomorrow from my good mate Tom…

more to come

3rd February 2011: Im looking to throw together a flea for the upcoming AWS and was wondering what brushless setup to use to power the spinner… after a brief search of robotbirds i have come up with this:

http://robotbirds.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=56_57&products_id=1416

bear in mind i am as always on a tight budget