Obstinacy - Thy Name is Radicus

Having successfully implemented the brushless weapon setup for our old beetleweight Unlettered Understrapper 2.0 the thing we have left to do is the piece we dislike the most: wiring! Things were relatively straight-forward before putting the weapon in, as there was plenty of room in the 'bot - now, though, not so much, but we persevered ... Hit Back after viewing an image.

We started out by stripping everything out and part by part re-inserting the electronics to try and find the most suitable position for everything. It was not going well, and then we had the idea to switch the weapon motor position to try and free up more room on one side of the 'bot for the battery.

We drilled and countersunk a couple of new holes in the baseplate and switched the master link on the chain. Hey presto! Half the inside of the 'bot is now contiguous space ... hopefully we can do something with that.

Here we are in the midst of trying to get everything organized inside the 'bot. Moving the weapon motor was a good idea, but it's still a really tight fit to cram everything in. We do have a decent amount of weight left over on the 'bot, and we started thinking about widening the chassis, but of course then we'd have to make mounts for the weapon thresher, and it would be a whole lot of hassle.

Argh! So close, but after three hours of fiddling around we still hadn't quite made everything fit properly. We're probably going to have to take a soldering iron to some of the components and lengthen wires, but we're determined to make this 'bot go! We can afford to spend a bit more time on this 'bot until parts show up for other, better-designed 'bots in the fleet ...