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https://youtu.be/Sw4sJVgOYnY

A horribly grainy HSOD test video. Doesn't help that this polycarb isn't quite transparant anymore!
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Boredom, a frozen canal and one ancient antweight:

https://youtu.be/2kfZ5flx-5c
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that mini bot/ feather in the video kinda has the same shape as my W.I.P feather weight robot
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I notice a bunch of the vertical spinners you've done have extra long motor shafts which you use for support. Can't work out where you would have got them from save machining them yourself. Care to spill the beans? :)
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bitternboy wrote:I notice a bunch of the vertical spinners you've done have extra long motor shafts which you use for support. Can't work out where you would have got them from save machining them yourself. Care to spill the beans? :)
They're just the prop adapter that comes with the motor, I just put a bearing on it.
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That was pretty obvious now I think about it.
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Post event report from Ant Freeze:
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Test Robot Please Ignore Finished with 8.5 hours before the event it did quite well. Spin up issues due to the afro esc's being too aggressive with voltage safety limits but it got quite stuck in anyway... A lot!
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It did also somehow manage to beat a horizontal bar (The supposed counter to a vertical disc) by managing to hit the bar before the bar hit it (EXTREMELY unlikely thing to do), the bar did not fare well.

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Wedge Wedge Wedge got beaten up by why wait, yellow wedge taking most the damage.

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Don't Hug Me I'm Scared ejected it's own battery at one point. The rest of the time the afro esc just wouldn't let it spinup. Something that it never had an issue with in testing. Quite a disappointing performance as a robot built around a weapon but barely able to use it isn't great.

Horizontal Spinner Of Doom did okay. Didn't suffer badly from spinup issues (though still had some) and was able to deal a good amount of damage. The arena however was not a horizontal friendly one and it bounced out on most hits. I took the feet off as they weren't needed and just made control worse.

Space-Y managed a clean sweep of the pinball by relocating most the obstacles to outside the arena.

And a bonus picture of the generic vertical lineup:
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Hmmm... This ant is a little bit big.
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I liked Peters idea of the dehydrator for filament so grabbed one for myself. Should be able to mess about with Nylon and other stronger filaments much more easily.
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Also my sisters partner bought a 550 size hexcopter for filming and after messing with it I decided I needed a drone for myself.
His drone:
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Parts for a small 150 quad of my own:
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And some tyres for the heavyweight! 40cm.
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Not an ant, but I was bored and wanted one so made myself a small little 125 quadcopter:
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It's a fun little thing but super fast and quite twitchy to fly (It has a high thrust to weight ratio). It weighs about 120g and I made the frame of it in house on my CNC router out of 3mm polycarbonate.
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