Between work and getting some Shockbots orders ready I've finally spent some time getting my team ready for the Antweight Open this weekend.
I have been planning to rebuild White since the AWS as I felt that some improvement was needed- I had to remove most of the acetate to get it in the cube and it was a bit to easily flipped. The new one has larger, much grippier wheels and a proper flipper linkage which makes the most of the servo it has in there. The changes seem to work pretty well and it is far better than the orginal version.
Inversion 2 has also been upgraded slightly after seeing how effective White 2 is with the new wheels I decided that Inversion would benefit from them too- a new chassis was printed to accomodate them and the results are very impressive- it has a good boost of speed from the larger wheels and the grip is incredible! It can even self right completely unaided by quickly changing direction.
nice! white looks like it'll be able to pick robots up and carry them around quite well which is always advantageous and invertion looks pretty good too.
Now that all of the event for this year are done I can now take a look at all my ants and work out what changes will be made for next year.
White 2- very very pleased with how this one works- I've ordered a new metal geared servo for it after the last servo stripped- the new one is faster and with more torque so should work well. The drive is excellent so will be staying largely the same.
Inversion 3- also happy with the way the new version works- will have some new wheels made and possibly a new chassis to allow the hinged scoop to work as planned.
Red- somehow still running but is now getting a little bit tired- will be keeping it around for a few friendlys but will be replaced in the AWS team.
Inertia 2- still in full working order after the Open- the disc caused plenty of damage and the changes from the AWS made a big difference.
Mini Red- still running perfectly after winning the fleas at the open.
Rush 4x4- still works well but may get a new chassis before next year.
Reducto- working perfectly still having won both the AWS and Ant Open Nanoweight competitions
Inertia XT- Has a couple of issues but will get a new drive servo and will try to lose some weight to get it within the limit.
I have plans for a couple of ants but the main one I want to finish is Inertia 11 which will be replacing Red in my team. I'm going to try and mix building styles to make it as effective as possible without exploding.
