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Like a back-and-forth vibration? It would still lack a mechanism to walk though. Directional bristles are more akin to the motion of a tracked robot than anything classed as legged.

Simply using 2 spinners to gyro your robot along (like Clean Sweeper in America, I'm guessing?) wouldn't be a walker because it's still just using rotational movement to propel forwards. The simplest way to change it to a walker would be some sort of twist foot mechanism, like Rex in Battlebots or h...

It's a great idea, John. We're doing that for the October one.

No need for apologies at all Michael, all good.

That's starting to look great! Nice to see something totally new coming through.

Hey Ian,
The DX6i is fine for ants (and most robots, I drove my heavyweight with one) and has mixing. Stick "DX6i mixing" into YouTube for a ton of tutorial videos on how to do it, plus a load of other handy tips.
Dave.

I'm thinking of your hearing, Peter

Hi all. One of my bugbears in robot combat is a lack of thought when it comes to naming your robot. Not a big deal, most think, but a lack of originality, or using a name that somebody else has been using for a while can lead to issues. Example. At the upcoming AWS there is a robot signed up called ...

Me and the guys I'm travelling with are happy to help set up. There's 4 of us, can be there for 8am and should be fine to stay til 6.

I'm happy to judge too.

You're doing fine, my friend. Give yourself time to breathe and don't worry. When all is said and done, if you have a room, an arena and Antlog running, and everyone turns up and listens, then we can run the event fine. You've already finished the hard bit. We can carry you over the finish line if n...