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I'm not sure whether you all read the FRA forum regularly so I thought I would put this here: It looks like Roaming Robots are interested in running an Antweight competition as part of their winter tour. Here is Jonno's post from the Portsmouth page "Guys If anyone wants to bring their ant weig...

We will be going anyway with our feathers (and possibly heavy) and I now have 11 weeks off to assemble the pile of ant parts so you can count on us being there with at least one ant.

Aftershock was given a complete rebuild a few weeks ago and is now within the weight limit and is working brilliantly It now has a welded 5mm HDPE shell and the pneumatics system has been upgraded to increase the flowrate. After testing it at the Space Centre (and winning) it then got to round 3 of ...

hi,

i would love to go but this is right in the middle of my exams so I'm not allowed.

We have signed up with our feathers we are taking

Whirlpool
Shockwave
Whirlwind (renamed aftershock)
Tidal Wave 2
Lightwave

I will also try to get Ant Awe finished but no doubt I will have an ant in some shape or form.

Thanks for all of the comments- I'm not sure that this version will win much, it's just something to try out the design, the next version will be much better and will be made after my exams with a much improved drive system and a more powerful pneumatic flipper- thanks to my sponsors airlines pneuma...

I have finally got round to starting my new ant, it has the drive motors from my old super ant in it at the moment as my order from the robot market place hasn't arrived yet. Name- Ant Awe Weight- currently 170g but a new battery would sort that out Armour- all 2mm HDPE Drive- 2x Solarbotics GM6 mot...

Thanks,

I will try and get a few pictures online when its finished.

As for the 10mm HDPE it should become clear when you see the design (it's only on the flipper arm)

Hi, Please remember even though I do have loads of featherweights, this is my first proper ant and I still have a lot to learn. So far the Naro seems ok for a lifter and is on track to be within the weight limit even with the 10mm HDPE lifting arm (with loads of holes drilled in it). Whether it is w...

Right, well I am finally going to start my first proper antweight. I have just bought a Spektrum DX6i to use with my featherweights and the AR6200 reciever seems ideal for ants. I have a couple of parkflyer servos which have been modded for the drive and I have got a naro servo for the flipper It se...