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And here we go Cassius Jnr. The end result didn’t look very good, and didn’t work, but I leanrt a lot.

The robot was made from 1/4” brass box, fully soldered. The base plate chassis was 2mm aluminium. The first stage in building was to make the chassis plate and the two main brass uprights. Once this had been done, the rest of the brass frame was slowly built up. Next, the wheels and swinging arms were fitted. Close ups in the Pictures section.

With the wheels fitted and frame finished, the robot was painted yellow. Then the parts. I made gearboxes myself, but they didn’t work too well and I scrapped them. Plastic chains transfered power to the wheels, and these caused problems by jamming and falling off. The Speed controllers were the 6v ones left over from a previous robot, and the power was supplied by a brand new 6v SLA battery.

The robot never got much further than that, but never fear. Cassius Jnr MkII will be rolling out shortly. Again based on Cassius, it's bigger (about half scale) and much stronger. The flipper will work this time, as there is space for the bits to fit inside.

This robot did make an outing at Burton on Trent, and was, by a stroke of luck, put on the brench right next to Cassius. Thats handy, because I picked some advice up from Rex Garrod.

More in the Pictures Section Soon.