London Expo, antweights??

Andrew_Hibberd · Post by **Andrew_Hibberd** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:30 am

Sorry, can't make this one right in the middle of exams.

Marco Roberts · Post by **Marco Roberts** » Mon May 15, 2006 9:55 am

well I will be going. I heard that there wont be a arena to run any of the large robots (feathers ect). So it will just be us ant fellas fighting in the old aws 14 arena.
But it looks like its just going to be me and anty B all day long.

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Mon May 15, 2006 10:06 am

I Spoke to Anthony yesterday at Aylesbury, and we'll bring Fast Dalek along for Nathan to battle, for as long as his batteries hold out, on Sunday.

BTW, I had an idea for an antweigh pay per drive... How about an equivalent of tag antweights, where all the robots look a bit like pants, but have pencils instead of blades, and replaceable paper "armour". Whichever robots draws on the other more wins. We could also run them off AAA batteries, to last longer. What do people think?

Simon

Post by **BeligerAnt** » Mon May 15, 2006 8:48 pm

Simon, I must say that sounds like a pretty cool idea 8)

olivers · Post by **olivers** » Tue May 16, 2006 3:47 pm

Which day are people going? I would love to get a few autographs but they seem pretty expensive.

I have the parts to make at least 2 pay per drive ants, bung a big Tx battery on them and there you go. I have 1 spare 40MHz Tx.

If anyone has one of the 12V chargers for NiMh batts I could drag a 12V 7Ah battery down.

Marco Roberts · Post by **Marco Roberts** » Wed May 17, 2006 12:49 pm

well i probs will be going on both days
I have 2 packs of 4xaa batterys.
As for parts to build pay per drive ants, i really dont have anything spare.
All my decent servos are being used, and the rest are either missing gears or worse

olivers · Post by **olivers** » Fri May 19, 2006 11:12 am

Looks like I will be at the London Expo tomorrow. I won't have the ants or anything though as I am going with a friend and looking round so want to be sociable.

?15-20 per autograph, pah

Marco, not sure if you want to meet up.

Marco Roberts · Post by **Marco Roberts** » Fri May 19, 2006 11:29 am

.....tomorrow?

I just copied this from teh website

the next event on the 27th & 28th May 2006

olivers · Post by **olivers** » Fri May 19, 2006 4:58 pm

oops, mean next Sat.

Getting old and forgetfull. Being doing so much recently and lose track of time.

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Sun May 28, 2006 7:02 pm

Hi,

We spent the day at London expo (it was a lot of fun) and it really hit me that most of the time was spent recharging our batteries, rather than entertaining the masses. I've just experimented attaching a duracell 9v battery to Fast Dalek, and although it's probably a bit overweight, I imagine it'll run for a very long time now, and no need for a recharge, just change batteries... (although possibly a bit expensive it should work for "demo" competitions.
I'll test it at Ickenham.