Team Nueclear Build Diary

**Laser** · 23rd October 2010, 10:11

Got a new team name (tell me if name is taken). We are now starting our new antweight (well, technically a kilobot)
I have got a 250mm x 500mmx 2mm sheet of steel and also a 10x10mm hollow square rod. With that I'm hopefully building a spinner which looks like this:

**Leonardomayo** · 23rd October 2010, 11:05

Now save a version of that as a .doc so office 2000 users like me can open it :P

**woody** · 23rd October 2010, 11:12

Here you go..[attachment=0:1d5v31r8]Noname.jpg[/attachment:1d5v31r8]

**typhoon_driver** · 23rd October 2010, 12:48

Make the wheel base wider otherwise you will find it won't be able to turn quickly

**jonny** · 23rd October 2010, 12:50

cool, looks like tombstone!

**Laser** · 23rd October 2010, 12:56

The wheel base is quite wide the boxes at the bottem left and right are the servos and on the outside are the wheels.
I'm also intrested in making a ant weight flipper usin thid pneumatic set: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Lego-Pneumatic-AI ... 3a5fcb12d3
and to keep it pressureised this kind of idea http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Lego-Pneumatic-Co ... 3a5fb731e3
But what shuold I use for the armour, I could go and buy some aliminium from B&Q or use some of my 2mm lexan.If you recommened a material for the armour please tell mke.

**typhoon_driver** · 24th October 2010, 06:49

I would still widen and shorten the chassis. There is a relatively large distance from one end of the chassis to the other end compared to the width of the wheelbase. So you effectively have to have a higher torque acting from the servos to turn the robot than you would if the wheelbase were wider.

**Laser** · 24th October 2010, 08:30

I have to make it quite long because the battery I'm using is an old and big NI-MH what I got in galaxy for Â£4. I could always use my Lipo, but is only 300mah.