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theres an antweight version of us already?
we were contemplating one and if there was an antweight comp this year at robot wars we wouldve built one however as there wasnt we couldnt spare the time, but there may yet be an antweight typhoon from us........:)
The Ant is being built at the moment and trials seem to have worked, the weight is a problem and we are trying to remove as much unneccessary plastic and casing as we can. does anyone know of a cheap, light 3 or four way transmitter and reciever? or is an infra-red link allowed?
no i was wrong about the antweight typhoon it was different one :P
soz
How is this ant going? Havent been any updates for a while.:)
Mike
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sorry i havent posted in ages, general problems.
The project sort of died a while back due to being unable to get parts, however i am going to try and restart it.
I built a hover ant a couple of years back, but it wasnt very satisfying. There were two big issues I found. Firstly, the weight of batteries needed always seems to be greater than the lift you can generate within the 4 cube. Secondly, to keep the lift you need to float barely above surface of the arena. This was fine when I tested it on a nice flat fridge, but none of the commonly used arenas are as flat as that. This meant that it kept grounding out whenever you tried to turn it.
Id like to see one working properly, but its not easy.