Honestly I'd have thought there's more than enough room for two events at the end of the year I'll happily go to both Bristol and Basingstoke, and anywhere else for that matter...
Where would most people be staying if it does go ahead in Somerset?
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- Tue Sep 20, 2016 7:42 pm
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: A question about the sabertooth esc
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5797
Re: A question about the sabertooth esc
Either way works; if one motor goes the opposite direction to how you want it to go, swap the wires!
- Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:12 pm
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: Design-Build of Fe, my first competitive ant.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12402
Re: Design-Build of Fe, my first competitive ant.
0.75mm might work; I would look at spring steel maybe (ebay?) as that's probably going to have better antweight properties than mild steel for the same weight. Good luck with the build and weight!
- Sun Sep 18, 2016 6:49 pm
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: Design-Build of Fe, my first competitive ant.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12402
Re: Design-Build of Fe, my first competitive ant.
The design looks good, but I trust you've done the weight calculation if you want to armour the entire robot in steel? You might be able to do it with less than 0.5mm thickness for that much surface area (going on eyeballing) but 0.2 or 0.3mm thick anything isn't going to offer much protection at all!
- Mon Sep 12, 2016 8:57 pm
- Forum: Questions (and answers)
- Topic: Das Mikro - £12 dual channel speed controller with mixing
- Replies: 32
- Views: 74588
Das Mikro - £12 dual channel speed controller with mixing
Being a Description and full and frank Account of the Testing of an exciting new Brand of Motor Controller from the Orient by a reknowned Moron of few Talents and a frankly poor Grasp of the English Language, with Apologies The price of antweight speed controllers has gone down a bit over the years...
- Sat Sep 10, 2016 12:15 am
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Antweight open 12th November 2016
- Replies: 71
- Views: 104130
Re: AWS/Antweight open 12th November 2016
I really need to sort that local thing out in Lancaster don't I XDLuckyAnimalJeff wrote:New builder here (well, I haven't started building anything yet, but I'm hoping to) Would love to get down to AWS 51, but I live t'up north in Preston.
- Thu Sep 08, 2016 5:29 pm
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: SG90 Speed Hacking
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11592
Re: SG90 Speed Hacking
Araldite or similar epoxy should do it, maybe with some coarse sandpaper or similar to rough up the gear faces for a better bond.
- Wed Sep 07, 2016 9:33 pm
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: Antweight robot first build
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9060
Re: Antweight robot first build
I'm not sure what use you'd have for a Zumo chassis? Generally you'll want a custom chassis for antweights but it's not usually that hard - a lot of mine have been basically a sheet of suitable plastic or metal/carbon fibre with holes for the wheels and motor mounts cut out with a knife.
- Wed Sep 07, 2016 5:38 pm
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: Total cost?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 42556
Re: Total cost?
I'd like to make my own controllers one day but it's not really my department :( I am trying to have a diverse range of electronics without using any one controller in all my robots though. Diversity is important and should be encouraged in everything in life, and that goes for speed controllers too...
- Mon Sep 05, 2016 6:10 pm
- Forum: Antweights
- Topic: Total cost?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 42556
Re: Total cost?
From what I've seen, it's always more difficult than you think it is and you must sacrifice at least the first four or five revisions to Our Lord And Saviour George Francis in a cloud of ritual smoke until you have something that works! Good luck with it if you do though - my (non-technical) advice ...