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Some of you may have noticed that Ant Awe 5 has been looking a bit tired and worn out over the last few events so I decided to give it a much needed rebuild.

It now features a new chassis with removeable shell (as on Ant Awe 6). This has made it much easier to work on and the drive and flipper now work a lot better.

Here are some pics (it still needs another coat of paint and the stickers added)
http://s881.photobucket.com/albums/ac13 ... 20Awe%205/

The stats are pretty much the same as before

Weight: 148g
Length: 11cm
Width:11cm
Height: 7.5cm
Armour: 0.5mm Aluminium Armour, 2mm HDPE base
Weapon: Flipper powered by HPXF parkflyer servo
Drive: 2x 30:1 micro geared motors
Controller: Barello ant 150 controller
Battery: 7.4v, 180mAh LiPo
Rx: Spektrum AR500e

Say hello to the Americans!!!

Robot - Top Gun
Speed - Not very fast
Power - 4 1.5v 2300mAh NiMH in series
Drive - 2 Battlebot RC motors
Controller - RC toy speed controller
Weapon - Lifting forks and a wedge
Armour - 4mm HDPE and 3mm plastic
Status - Ready to fight.

Robot - Rambot II
Speed - Dont know
Power - 7.2v 730mAh NiMH
Drive - 4 Sanyo 50:1 motors
Controller - Sabretooth
Weapon - Sheer ramming ability
Armour - 8mm aluminum & 2mm titanium
Status - Waiting to be built

...8mm ali? Must be an American ant then

I might as well list mine here, Jigsaw's glaring at me...

Jigsaw IV
Weight: 150g
Dimensions: 140 x 100 x 63 mm...in theory...it refused to wedge into the cube in Richmond
Drive: 2 75.7:1 Sanyo gearmotors run from a 180mah 2 cell 7.4v LiPo and Waller Option D speed controller
Armour: 1.5mm and 0.75mm polycarbonate, 1mm aluminium, acetate
Weapon: HPXF servo powered front hinge flipper/self righter, what Scott refers to as 'awesome cat ears' which are actually self righting assisting devices
Notes: Jigsaws I, II and III were all not especially good and actually followed Asimov's laws of robotics, in that they rejected just about any orders they got and didn't do all that much except randomly twitch until defeat...Spektrum's a wonderful technology, it really is
Uses bits from project boxes and video cases
First robot I built that people thought was well engineered, despite me still working on the flipper linkage at 11PM the night before the event
Status: Alive and kicking



Little Yellow Taxi
Weight: 75g-ish
Dimensions: 95 x 73 x 30 mm (excluding aerial)
Drive: 2 SuperTec Naro HP servos, powering homebrew wheels running on a regulated 5v from a 7.4v 2 cell 135mah LiPo
Armour: 0.5mm carbon fibre, 0.75mm polycarbonate
Weapon: E-Flite Park 180 brushless motor powered 50mm long titanium blade/bar/untethered projectile running at ~15,000rpm
Notes: First brushless fleaweight spinner (apparently), has never been all that successful yet still seems to really scare everyone and can tear into titanium but strangely not tape?
Status: Being rebuilt, bits are on my desk atm

I lol'd

Time for my ant



Name: Stack error
Weight: Currently unknown but about 25g for the main body and 75g of drive, weapon servo etc components leaving 50g for wheels, a hinge , a linkage and the flipper it self.
Dimensions: Roughly 100 x 100 x 45 mm
Drive: 2 x Tower Pro MG90S Servos
Weapon: A HPXF powered flipper. Will be rear hinged if I can find/make a light enough hinge for it otherwise front hinged with the hinged bit of a plastic folder as its hinge.
Armour: The final version will be armoured in 2mm pcb when I can find the etching chemicals to remove the copper. However, I will make a prototype from CD jewel cases (convieniently also 2mm thick) to see If I can cut it by hand easily or if I'll need to borrow a laser.

Robot: #1
speed: super slow
Power: 4.2V 300MAh NiMh
Drive: Cheap servos
Controller: " "
Weapon: none
Armour: 2mm card
Status: Active
Photo: none

A few updates since last time

Jigsaw V mk. II
Weight: 150g
Dimensions: 135 x 100 x 40 mm
Drive: 2 x 50:1 Pololu HP 12mm gearmotors driving 32mm rubber tyred wheels, run from a Peter Waller option D speed controller and a 120mah 7.4v 2 cell lithium polymer battery pack
Armour: 1mm polycarbonate chassis, 0.9mm titanium, acetate
Weapons: Front hinged flipper/self righter powered by a modified 4 bar linkage from a Hitec HS82-MG servo run from full battery voltage
Notes: Was initially built for AWS32, but after numerous issues had a new chassis built after the weapon system more or less imploded at the event. Uses bits from video cases, Velcro tape, and random other components
Status: Alive and waiting to fight

Pictures can be found at http://s267.photobucket.com/albums/ii30 ... d%20diary/ for those that are interested, with commentary by myself for those insomniacs among us whom medical science has failed.

The Data Fields
Weight: 120g
Dimensions: 170 x 100 x 25 mm
Drive: 2 x 50:1 Inertia Labs 12mm gearmotors driving Tamiya track drive sprockets, run from a Sozbots SOZDSC-M speed controller and verious 2 and 3 cell 7.4/11.1v lithium polymer battery packs
Armour: 1mm hardened aluminium chassis, 1mm polycarbonate
Weapons: Interchangable rambot - options include hardened steel dart spikes, various scoops, shields, bumpers, whatever I can fit on really
Notes: On its third or fourth version (minor changes in between each, mainly to the armour, radio reciever, weapon setup, etc.) and perennially underweight despite relatively heavy components and home made axle blocks (!)
Status: Alive (somehow)

Slightly out of date pics are at http://s267.photobucket.com/albums/ii30 ... s%20build/

Arcus
Under construction antweight with claws, currently waiting for me to work out how to armour such an oddly shaped thing

Tracked robots FTW!