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by tomchaps
Wed Mar 15, 2017 11:38 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: Team Ucalegon's ants
Replies: 44
Views: 79236

Re: My first ant was not a success: Onto the second!

I'm just going to keep spamming the forum with questions, if folks don't mind... Over on Peter Waller's thread, he wrote a while ago about Flippant's servo: "At the moment it is bound to a transmitter without a switch so they are slower on the stick but that will change." So, right now I h...
by tomchaps
Wed Mar 15, 2017 6:00 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: Team Ucalegon's ants
Replies: 44
Views: 79236

Re: My first ant was not a success: Onto the second!

Just regular old double sided tape, not that crazy fancy stuff used for RC airplane hinges or anything? Also, I love the idea of trying an EDF bot. I don't think I've ever seen one in the US. Could someone link to a typical motor/fan used in one of these? I'm hoping it's not the $40 ones I see on Ho...
by tomchaps
Wed Mar 15, 2017 5:08 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: Team Ucalegon's ants
Replies: 44
Views: 79236

Re: My first ant was not a success: Onto the second!

Building a small fleet of new ants, in preparation for Robogames. I've successfully soldered up one of those Das Mikro boards (dear lord, that was frustrating to solder), so I now have the guts of three bots ready to go. I think I'll try a spinner--hopefully vertical?--a lifter, and a clamp. I only ...
by tomchaps
Fri Mar 03, 2017 11:09 pm
Forum: Questions (and answers)
Topic: Sketchup/CAD library?
Replies: 1
Views: 3010

Sketchup/CAD library?

I'm just learning Sketchup, and have seen mentions of shared libraries of commonly used parts for antweights. But I can't seem to track them down!

Could someone direct me, if such a thing does in fact exist?
by tomchaps
Tue Nov 15, 2016 6:42 pm
Forum: Questions (and answers)
Topic: Building a battle box
Replies: 4
Views: 5259

Building a battle box

I volunteer at a kid-centric hackerspace am hoping to build an antweight battlebox for the kids to use. It won't be enclosed at first, since we'll begin with a no-kinetic-weapons rule, but I do have a big sheet of 4mm polycarb someone donated for a future upgrade. Could someone share typical dimensi...
by tomchaps
Fri Oct 28, 2016 12:23 am
Forum: Antweights
Topic: Team Ucalegon's ants
Replies: 44
Views: 79236

Team Ucalegon's ants

A few days before my first event, my US (i.e., 1-pound) antweight was 130g over, and in despair I used some Instamorph to glob some micromotors onto a sheet of titanium to see if I could distract myself with a smaller bot. Amazingly, it seemed underweight, so I ordered some faster motors and decided...