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patdied
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Post by patdied »

I wish they still sold pneumatics :( .

The robots that use pneumatics are cool like this one called Pele in sozbots

http://www.longnow.org/rhino/pix/Pele_Revert.jpg

It's like Micro TORO!
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Post by alasdair »

here is another ant with a flamer

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_klC8tizKzo&feature=channel

the one on the left uses it right at the start
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Handy in a dark room, but not much else, I think.

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Post by malivoirec »

"I wish they still sold pneumatics"

Well I found these if it is of any use.

http://www.active-robots.com/products/m ... tics.shtml
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Post by Andrew_Hibberd »

Anticide is running the robotcombat pneumatics this weekend, lego pneumatics are also very competative void has used them at the last few events and rebel was amazing.
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I've updated the doocument we give out at public events on how to build a robot http://antweightrobots.com/objects/kitty.pdf

Any comments?

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Post by peterwaller »

That looks good Simon the price soon mounts up once you go to the motor/gearbox setup.
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Post by Simon Windisch »

Thanks Peter.

The Precisionmicrodrives motors used to be ?4, and I know Josh used to get them from ebay. Does anyone know a cheaper supplier?

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