Antweight advice

iain · Post by **iain** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:24 pm

I have been experimenting with a fiew ideas for the last week. I have all the radio gear and converted servos.

I built 3 experimental robots which turned out quite well.
My first 2 were flippers and the one i have now is a flame thrower(which i know is against the rules but i only did it for fun.)

Any advice on improveing and what to do next.

Remote-Controlled Dave · Thu Feb 09, 2006 6:03 pm

Attend an event with them. Nothing is better than actual combat experience for ironing out bugs in designs.

iain · Post by **iain** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:42 pm

thanks i'll try and get to the next event that is near enough to me

Marco Roberts · Post by **Marco Roberts** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:59 am

probably the best way to see how you can improve you ants is to look at the competition.
This is usually what I do.
Mainly be cause say the ant weights in the USA focas on kinetic damage while its not so much here. So if i were to compete over there I would focas a fair bit on armour.
Get some dvd's, download the videos on the web and think how your ants would fair to the ones on the screen.

Cavecrusher · Post by **Cavecrusher** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:59 am

Marco Roberts wrote:Mainly be cause say the ant weights in the USA focas on kinetic damage while its not so much here.

Yeah, Right....

Marco Roberts · Post by **Marco Roberts** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:23 pm

Yep I stand by my word

many of the well known ant weight robots over there are spinners.
Over here there is a less percentage of spinners entering competitions. Being able to take care of spinners is usually important, but, if your pusher is wishing to stand a chance over in the west, it best be tuff. As the arena is harder to push something off and off course the silly amount of spinners.

Craig_Anto3 · Post by **Craig_Anto3** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:05 pm

u've missed alot mate

Marco Roberts · Post by **Marco Roberts** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:16 pm

we shall see

Remote-Controlled Dave · Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:17 am

Aint there more spinners in the states because there are more robots in general? I think the ratio of spinners to non-spinners is about the same if you look at the builders database.

Craig_Anto3 · Post by **Craig_Anto3** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:08 pm

901st Post!!!!! i need to get out more!!

I'm with Dave on this its pretty much 50/50 alothou i will admit there spinners are much better than there others. there arenas are geared towards spinner combat i think if someone made a good enough brick bot it'd rule over there, at least thats what i'm hoping should Anto XP work i'll take her over to show them what a real antweight looks like