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- Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:18 pm
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: The smart ant's and flea's
- Replies: 101
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Re: The smart ant's and flea's
The autonomous robot is still in progress, still designing the robot but will order the bits required soon. but i've mostly been working on a antweight spinner,heading towards a design similar to a robot i think was called bulkhead? basically a 3d printed metal horizontal bar. thanks to our new walk...
Re: AWS 53?
one of the things that some people organizing events have done is to ask for donations to help cover the cost of the venue. the idea of a mandatory entry free of a couple of quid per robot has also been thought about. so if the cost of the venue is an issue and getting a sponser to cover the cost is...
- Thu Jul 27, 2017 10:57 am
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: The smart ant's and flea's
- Replies: 101
- Views: 192150
Re: The smart ant's and flea's
now paused all antweight projects sorry guys. however i am going to build a beast of a robot. not for any size category but about beatle in size ish. do you want to see me post things on that project and where should i post them. not really right to put on the antweight section. but not for beatles ...
- Wed Jul 05, 2017 9:24 pm
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: The smart ant's and flea's
- Replies: 101
- Views: 192150
Re: The smart ant's and flea's
Having finished exams i've finally had some time to start to design some new robots. Thanks to the great success of the walking mechanism used in SmartFlea 3's i'm basically going to use that walking design on lots of robots now for a few reasons, 1. because of the extra weight from being a walker, ...
- Tue Nov 08, 2016 3:46 pm
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: The smart ant's and flea's
- Replies: 101
- Views: 192150
Re: The smart ant's and flea's
so, we were steadily making progress on the walker, when we realized we only had a week befor antweight open, snuck up on us rather quickly. with a whole team to rebuild or entirely make from nothing. Smart ant 3, new polycarbonate armor and new tracks Smart Ant 4, new stainless steel front plate an...
- Fri Oct 07, 2016 7:10 pm
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: The smart ant's and flea's
- Replies: 101
- Views: 192150
Re: The smart ant's and flea's
after deciding that the main problem with the last design of mechanism was the fact it only had 2 legs i started development of the second edition of the walking mechanism this time with 4 legs per side possibly the smallest walking mechtanium in antwights and flea's (as this is technically for a fl...
- Wed Aug 31, 2016 2:49 pm
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: The smart ant's and flea's
- Replies: 101
- Views: 192150
Re: The smart ant's and flea's
progress on the walking mechanism has been my main goal today along with trying to workout how to fit it in the cube
hear is the walking system so far, brightly colored so i can actually see what part is what
hear is the walking system so far, brightly colored so i can actually see what part is what
- Tue Aug 30, 2016 3:24 pm
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: The smart ant's and flea's
- Replies: 101
- Views: 192150
Re: The smart ant's and flea's
So, the new control boards now have had some progress to the point where we got a robot to work in time for aws 50 but has not had much progress since as all are robots were brutally destroyed by spinners at aws 50, but most will just be rebuilt with slight improvements. but hopefully we will get so...
- Sat Jul 23, 2016 5:25 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: AWS 50- 23rd July- Basingstoke
- Replies: 124
- Views: 128176
Re: AWS 50- 23rd July- Basingstoke
thanks to Dan and his family for hosting a wonderful event. thanks to all those who helped with the general running of the event and antlog, like dave, who was shouting out all of the fights, well done to all the winners, there were some very close fought and intense battles along with some spectacu...
- Thu Jun 02, 2016 10:48 am
- Forum: Events
- Topic: AWS 50- 23rd July- Basingstoke
- Replies: 124
- Views: 128176
Re: AWS 50- Date TBC- Camberley, Surrey
the 9th would be best for us