New antweight Robot

[roons2424]

ow, yea... that is umm...FREAKING AWSOME!!!!!!

[liamglen1]

nice maybe you could add a weapon like a flipper and did you use a cd mfor the side panels and if you did what did you use to stick them together????

[yc05cvm]

how much did all the parts cost?

[tomtomscott]

@yc05cvm Hmm, quite a while since we build this. Well, you're looking at about 49p for a can of baked beans for the chassis :P, the servos are about 5 quid each (possibly cheaper) and the receiver was about 5 quid too. The batteries are 4 cells from a rechargeable 9V battery which can range from £4-10 depending on where you go and the quality of the battery. that's about it really cos the wheels and stuff were made from bits of polycarb we had lying around.

[dalekandjedi]

lol i would of started with a 2 or 3 channel radio lol thats what i did

[Bowsersshell]

If you put a flywheel on the front would make a good fighter

[Bowsersshell]

if you put a flywheel on the front it would make a good

[liamglen1]

@Bowsersshell the lightest flywheels you can get are about 10kg! do you mean a small blade! or a dremmil disc!

[Bowsersshell]

@liamglen1 i think a gear cutter or milling blade would make a decent flywheel sub but i've seen flywheels that weigh much less than 10kg look at hexbug nanos they operate with a flywheel and are only about 50g

[liamglen1]

@Bowsersshell a flywheel is the thing in a car so it has to weigh about 30 kg! a blade and a flywheel are 2 totally different things ! a lot of pple get mistaken for a disc/blade for a flywheel ! if you watch robot wars you will see one of the only robots with a flywheel is matilda!

[Bowsersshell]

@liamglen1 i have watched robot wars extensivly hypnodisc has a flywheel but some kids toys have flywheels and an antweight could easily have a flywheel

[liamglen1]

@Bowsersshell i know but im just telling you tht loads of mpple get mistaken for a flywheel because tht is the part in a car! p.s how old are you?

[Bowsersshell]

@liamglen1 14 but why should that matter?

[CoyoteBoyUK]

Blurring the definition of "robot" there aren't we?

[Billycheezit]

:P it would be easier to drive on a rubber floor

[Bowsersshell]

@Billycheezit but the frounf would have to much fricton it would slow it down to much i think unpolished wood would be better

[nooloo3000]

whats the name of the controller and reciever

[tomtomscott]

@nooloo3000 It's a futaba sky sports 6 equivalent (can't remember the exact model number). And the receiver is just an unbranded one off ebay.

[owain2222]

made out of halfe a dogfood can and a cd cut in two

good aurmour choice

1 thing how heavy is it

[tomtomscott]

@owain2222 Oh, it's way over the antweight limit unfortunately, can't remember exactly how much.

[kiriakoskakos]

what electronics did you use to make it turn with 2 wheels

[tomtomscott]

Speed hacked servos

[MattDisturbedHendley]

Lol, the controllers like 10 times the size of the bot. Nice one.

[robotcrazzy1]

make a wepon

[robotcrazzy1]

can you make one of them

[tomtomscott]

one of what?

[dalekandjedi]

did u still use servos

[tomtomscott]

Yeah but they're speed hacked this time.

[dalekandjedi]

cool u seen my ant? on my utube

[6364gg2]

Very interesting choice of design! How much did the lil thang cost?

[tomtomscott]

Next to nothing tbh. The chassis is a composed of a piece of thin polycarb and a tin of beans. Wheels are milled out of bits of polycard that we had lying around and the innards i.e. servos and such are out of the bundle of stuff that you get in a transmitter box that weren't being used. I think the mini receiver cost about £8 or something. So not much at all :D

[SpartanL03]

maybe put some wheels on the front, so it doesnt make that scraping sound as it moves around.

[freetrader0000]

Looks really fun!

[OldMcDonald331]

how do you hook up the controller?

[dalekandjedi]

where did you get the antwieght bits from

[tomtomscott]

most of the innards of either from hobby corner or the internet, the chassis is pretty much made from bt of jun kthat we found lying around

[Keurgui1]

looks very affictve

[Stupididiotguy]

does not have a lot of grip, stick some elastics on the wheels.

[tomtomscott]

I know, its really difficult to control, at least the other one was slow lol. Yeah, we were thinking of getting a mixer but we're trying to spend as little money as possible.

[randar3]

it looks like your transmitter has a mixer built into it.

[frank26080115]

get a mixer so you don't have to control it that way

[RobotsAreHereNow]

crazy little critter lol