RobotWars101

I've been working on my first antweight on Fusion 360 and it's nearly finished, but as I'm fairly new to the sport I have a few questions about 3D printing the chassis: 1). should I use PLA or ABS? those are the materials I've heard mentioned the most. 2). depending on the answer to 1), what thickne...

Hi tomboys, did you use one hinge or two for your flipper? And do you know how much each hinge weighs? Thinking of using these for my front hinged flipper (which will be polycarb so should go quite well with it!). For my first antweight I used a ready made plastic hinge: https://www.homecrafts.co.uk...

Will do! Like I said it's early days...
But the concept itself is sound enough?

I was tempted by the idea of using hinges Lima, but all the ones I found were too heavy. Where do you get yours from and how heavy are they? Having had a look at other flippers what I've decided to do for ArmamAnt! is make a thin bar as in the photo, and then I'm going to design two separate "p...

Yes, I'm definitely not building a spinner as my first antweight. The first one is going to be Armamant! as it's by far the simplest one to do. I think I know what you're getting at, I'll give SNAFU a little redesign... Admittedly yes, I don't have to use CAD to make my robots. But having tried last...

It's been almost nine months since I last posted, sadly I was very busy finishing my exams in the second half of last year. I've just been too busy to do anything robot related at all, but now that I've passed them all at long last I've finally had some time to design and plan some builds. Here are ...

Hi all, sorry for the radio silence over the past month or so. It turns out my Dad's soldering iron didn't work and I haven't had time to get a new one yet, so building has obviously ground to a halt. In addition to that I found out about a month ago that I have to resit one of my exams in December,...

I’ll wire them in parallel this time. Thanks Mark, will post a picture later when I’m done.

Hi Mark, I'm not sure what you mean by "same RX module", but if it means am I using one receiver, then yes I am. I'm plugging both servo leads into the same Lemon Rx receiver. Ok, I think I get what you mean. So I do it like this: IMG_4065.jpg By 'daisy chain the wires to the motors', do y...

After attending AWS 55 and talking to a few roboteers, I've decided to put MicroNewton aside for now until I work out a better way of hinging the flipper, probably via 3D printing. With hindsight it is a slightly complicated design for a first time build, so I'm focusing on something a bit simpler; ...