Dyne's LD-F1 (D-O concept) build

[Dyne]

Oh, yea, well, for ECCC last week L3-G0 wasn't running for the 1st two days really.  We got one of the others finally running well - and then Lara killed it somehow, so he failed the last day.  Another limped along fairly well with a hacked wheel.  Mouse didn't really have issues at least!

They were at least running enough to get all four moving video, but I missed the chance to get a better video the next day since the one died.

Oh dear, sorry to hear that.

Yeah, I'm no stranger to breakdowns. Artie Deco's first motorized appearance at Dragon Con 2018 resulted in one of his drive gears slipping on its shaft. It cost a few days of the convention to finally fix that. Then in 2019 he stopped working entirely due to some swapped wires. He worked fine in 2021 but then he took a three+ foot tumble out of the back of the van onto a concrete carport on the way back from the con. No obvious damage, but at a con the following week, one of his motors started failing intermittently partway through.

BB-5M worked decently enough ... when his head would stay on for more than five minutes. The constant falls resulted in some internal damage to the dome attachments and a busted holo. P-1P (my mini MSE-4) runs for about two minutes on the marriott carpet before getting bogged down

So far my best performing build was my Nautealus teapot racer from 2017 which became my Ghostbusters RTV in 2021. But that was mostly just replacing the body.

It's just a thing we have to accept sometimes I suppose. I have high hopes that LD-F1 will be my most reliable yet, but I already recognize not everything turned out as well as I'd hoped.

The neck feels potentially fragile (Im not sure it'd survive being pushed too far the wrong way), it doesnt have powered lift, and it has a bit too much side-to-side play due to difficulty placing the spacers. The upper idler axles are slightly too short for locknuts. There are the design flaws with the pulley axle mounts, and the belts can and will skip or derail in spite of the tension on then. Its possible the amount of tension on the tracks will result in a break at some point. Just today, I picked up the droid and accidentally caught a few traction pads on my foot, which pulled them off and broke a couple of their clips (I have spares).

There is also the obvious issue with ESCs sticking out. For that, at least, I have a plan for improvement, but with two days before departure, I dont really have time to implement the changes right now. It would require ripping the fuse box and associated wiring out and replacing it with individual fuses, leaving more room for other stuff. (I didn't do this sooner because the original wiring plan would have needed more fuses, so it wouldn't have been of any benefit.) I'll address that after the con.

So it goes.


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