fleas

razerdave · Post by **razerdave** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 8:03 pm

Hope you can, De-flea is boring

although I'll fight it all the same

Remote-Controlled Dave · Fri Oct 22, 2010 8:39 pm

Wish I had the bits to build a new flea now. It's gunna turn into a proper little ding-dong. lol

peterwaller · Post by **peterwaller** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 2:38 pm

Made some really good progress on the new flea.
Designed it last night on CAD and generated the GCode for the chassis.
NC milled the chassis this morning despite the assistance of my 2 year old grand daughter came out at 8.5 gms.
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/ ... MG1144.jpg
Fitted and wired up the motors and controllers and it is all finished bar the blade but I only have 12.5 gms left so it will be tight.
Rightway up
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/ ... MG1145.jpg
Inverted still runs but blade a bit high.
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/ ... MG1146.jpg
Its quite fast on 50:1 HP's so I might have to use the rate switches.

joey_picus · Post by **joey_picus** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 6:38 pm

...it's quite concerning how quickly you can get good robots built

looking good Peter, hope to see it do well next weekend.

earthwormjim · Post by **earthwormjim** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 11:27 am

Hmmmm.
I WAS looking foreward to meeting Peter on Sunday...

peterwaller · Post by **peterwaller** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 5:59 pm

It is all finished and ready to go a 75.6 gms.
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/ ... MG1150.jpg
Here it is driving
http://s109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/ ... MG1148.mp4
Here it is spinning
http://s109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/ ... MG1147.mp4
I think that should be Saturday.

TheAntTrap · Post by **TheAntTrap** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 7:05 pm

My 20g flea is going to be dust on saturday

that sounds fun

razerdave · Post by **razerdave** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 7:32 pm

All my rebuilding is going to come to nought. I can't beleive you can make such a good robot in such a short space of time.

BTW, does it meet dimension requirements ?

TheAntTrap · Post by **TheAntTrap** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 7:54 pm

razerdave wrote:All my rebuilding is going to come to nought. I can't beleive you can make such a good robot in such a short space of time.

BTW, does it meet dimension requirements ?

I'm confused, do you meen peterwallers flea or my matchbox flea?

Remote-Controlled Dave · Sun Oct 24, 2010 8:18 pm

Ah, no one needs to worry about that one, Pete will drive it out the arena in a few seconds, it's too quick for him.