Tremor

Tremor is a lightweight fighting robot to replace Trembly for the WBX events. The original plan was to make it as a thwackbot, but I think it was beginning to turn into more of a rammer/wedge as time went on. The plan was pretty simple, the frame and all of the components would be built into a decently armoured box. Then a steel front end would be welded together as one piece and bolt directly to the front of the frame.

Here is the baseplate with the NPC gearkits I'm using for drive.

Here is the frame and front end mocked up to give an idea of the basic design of the bot.

This is another mockup but with the electronics placed.

My stupidity screwed up the paintjob but I thought the colors looked good.

I didn't manage to get any pictures of it finished because I accidently wrecked it during testing and it never got to compete. :(

I did get a video of it running though before, go here.

Update! July 2006: Tremor was fully built and competed at WBX3. It lost a hard fought match against Fly Speck and then won the award for "Most Spectacular Loss" against MDC. It was fun though!