A new antweighter (again!)

[Rapidrory]

The only thing you need to worry about is having a flat enough base that all 4 wheels touch the ground

For the time being you should be able to test it with the battery from your other antweight if you get the chassis built before the battery arrives.

Any idea what you're gonna make the chassis out of?

[Occashokka]

0.9mm aluminium-hence the name baby metal

[Occashokka]

with your driving it ought to be quite good.

Stop being polite and face the truth that It was a flukey performance which won't be emulated at aws 46!
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[Rapidrory]

Nice :L Easy to work, but might be a little flexible... I dunno, try it and see.

And just make sure you get plenty of practice in; took me months of practice to become a competitive driver, but then my hand to eye coordination is pretty poor so you probably have a head start already I found fighting against marbles worked pretty well if there was no one else to practice against :L

Another good tip is if you have one of the little black blade transmitters, push down on the right hand stick. The LED should start flashing, which gives you finer control of the robot and makes it easier to drive.

[Hogi]

getting plenty of sleep before the event and having a decent breakfast in the morning also helps with driving in my experience. armour is deffinitely important in pushers as you are likely to be fighting spinners nowadays but to be honest it is difficult to completely spinner proof your robot if you, like me, only have access to basic building materials.

handy hint: it sounds a bit silly but i find a good way to deflect spinner impacts is to use a lot of duck tape in your robot's construction. it tends to stretch and flex rather than snap which seems to reduce the chance of important bits of armour flying off! you can also make your robot look awesome with it.

[Rapidrory]

I also find not turning up also hungover helps a lot, but that shouldn't really be a problem for you guys

I just use folded 1.5mm polycarb in my bots as it's cheap and doesn't require any glue or any tools other than a pair of scissors, and I've yet to have any of my chassis particularly badly damaged by anything..

[Occashokka]

I generally have the hope that 0.9mm of alu(which is more resilient than it sounds)is able to withstand spinner without too much damage and being a tiny bit flexible might help it absorb blows(he says wishfully)
And rory the sole reason it's metal not polycarb is that I have a lot of spare alu and I worked out with fancy maths that 0.9mm of alu is equal to 2mm of polycarbonate meaning its not too heavy either

[Rapidrory]

It generally absorbs blows by bending out of shape; there's a piece of very bent 0.6mm aluminuim on my desk next to me that was on the front of my housemate's robot... Needless to say it is no longer attached But saying that, I used 1mm alu for my first robot though (lionel), and that's still going strong after a year, although with a fair few dents. Just be careful; it can be very sharp when you're working with it (as my housemate will testify :L)

[Occashokka]

I'm not sure I want to hear the details of such events...

[Occashokka]

I just hacked an old apache to many pieces and have retrieved a awesome cog an mount set up powered by two worm gear motors so now I have an 11g device which even with the current blades can either fly or invert to suck by 15g.In a few months I will own a ridiculous chassis that is brown with a hard shell and soft shock absorbing inside and has a vicious flying device stickin out!Anyone fancy a guess at what the shell will made of!