Antweight World Series 44 - Brize Norton, Oxfordshire

Hey folks!

Team Hell presents: Antweight World Series 44
When: 19th July 2014
Where: Elderbank Hall, Station Road, Brize Norton, OX18 3PL
Time: Hall open at 9, closed by 5 (all I could afford)

Unfortunately due to limited internet access, this event won't be streamed, so I would appreciate anyone who can film this for me :)

Further details in due course.

I do plan to have the Slaughterhouse Beetle arena at this event, I do hope to hold a formal competition, so get them all up to scratch and sign up your beetles on this thread (no option for beetles on the sign up sheet).

Sign ups:
http://robotwars101.org/ants/antweig...ter.php?id=234

Competitor list:
http://robotwars101.org/ants/antweig...ies.php?id=234

I have an ant and will enter it when i have a name....but the beetle RPM will be fighting fit :)

I'm going to try my best to come down with a finished Beetle! I don't think I'll have the money to make an antweight from scratch, but I can recycle a few parts for the beetle so that might work.

Even if I can't get down to actually fight a machine, I'd be more than happy to come and film it to lend a hand!

I've already signed up with my ants but put me down with 2 beetles too. Mantle and Soundwave

I'm planning to be there with Lionel and possibly a new ant if I get time to build one. I'll also hopefully have the first batch of NanoTwo antweight speed controllers ready for sale by then too :)

Can i sign up with provisional robots? i'd still like to come down even if i don't manage to get anything built in time

Sure, if you have to pull out it's easy enough to remove a name from the sheet.

Sign me up for one beetle weight provisionally too :)

I'll aim to get Spinza finished in time for this.

When are signups open till? And if I sign up an antweight, is it alright if it's just provisional? I'm hoping to have something built on the ant side of things, but would really hate to take someone's place and me ending up not having something to enter...

Definitely sign me up for a beetleweight though, Abandon (hoping the name isn't taken) - may have another but don't want to edge my bets!

Sign ups will be open until 10pm the night before, so you're good for a while :)

That's all good then, cheers!

Going to try and get something together on the ant side of things soon now, set of hacked servos and a lifter should do the trick, hopefully. Hopefully being the operative word there... Need to try and find some cheap servos to hack first but should be fine after that!

You can get micro servos on eBay for next to nothing Matt, I doubt I'll get an ant done for this event but will hopefully have the overhead bar spinner beetle

Yeah, there's a pack of 4 for 12 quid I've seen which looks alright - just need to know how to hack them without messing up! I'm sure it'll get there eventually, but still...

Overhead beetle spinner will be epic too, that thing will be crazy with that size of bar!

I'm sure there's things on the internet about how to do it, there is for just about everything else.

It will hopefully be good, might end up breaking itself quite often but it will look damn good doing it!

I've been eyeballing this event for a while now, and just looked up the prices for an airline ticket (amsterdam-cambridge/cambridge-amsterdam) and if I were to book tickets for that day. It would cost me 1400 euro's minimum and just 130 euro's if I were to return home the next day.

So my question is, would anyone more local be willing to offer me his/her couch for the saturday night?

I think I made a mistake in searching the closest by airport.
Looks like London is a better option.

Hey Niels

You're more than welcome at my place, and it's not too far for me to pick you up from Gatwick or Heathrow if you want me to?

That would be brilliant, many thanks in advance.

I'll PM you later on when I'm ready to make the final travel arrangements.

Travel arrangements have been made, please sign me up for one beetle.

Hey guys

Because this is an Antweight centred event, the beetle fights may run in an odd order, but also, due to the potential of more robots than I'd hoped/planned for, the first matches may well need to be 3 way melees. Along with 2 losers melees, this ensures everyone gets at least 2 fights, and let's the comp finish in 4 less fights as opposed to standard Double Elimnation, but does mean the 1st round winners, if they lose the next fight, they're out. I'm looking for some input on this.

We'll have to see how the day develops I guess, there might be room for a last beetle standing fight afterwards.

I do hope to get more action than just 6 minutes of fun (If my beetle stays active that long)

Hey guys

54 ants signed up so far, with just under a month to go. Keep them coming :).

Also, the beetles we have so far (provisional or otherwise):

Headbanger
Eggbeater
Great A'tuin
Haz #2
'Big Napalm'
RPM
Spinza
Son of Basketcase
Flux
Anvil
Susan
Andy (push and shove)
Nefarious
Soundwave
Chop suey

15 beetles, nice

I'd like to see pictures of 'm all

This is RPM:
http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/a...psc1b8cb59.jpg
Picture from when Haz was rebuilding it.

let's see if we can filll the list:

Headbanger
Eggbeater
Great A'tuin
Haz #2
'Big Napalm'
RPM
Spinza
Son of Basketcase
Flux
Anvil
Susan
Andy (push and shove)
Nefarious
Soundwave
Chop suey (under construction)

Headbanger
Eggbeater - Not happening, instead being replaced with:
Attack of The Bigger Thing
Great A'tuin
Haz #2 Somebody give me a name
'Big Napalm'
RPM
Spinza
Son of Basketcase
Flux
Anvil
Susan
Andy (push and shove)
Nefarious
Soundwave
Chop suey (under construction)

Headbanger (my beetle) - http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...Headbanger.jpg
Attack of The Bigger Thing
Great A'tuin
Haz #2
'Big Napalm'
RPM
Spinza
Son of Basketcase - http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...tachment-1.jpg
Fracture (sorry, Flux is the FW version of this robot) - http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/thre...l-beetleweight
Anvil - http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...Attachment.jpg (sorry, all Alex has to show ATM)
Susan
Andy (push and shove)
Nefarious
Soundwave - http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1.../soundwave.jpg
Chop suey (under construction)

Wish I could bring Gonzales over for a bash. Have fun guys.

RPM looks vicious but how much does it weigh? I`m asking because I`m having big difficulties with the weight of Nefarious and its smaller and mainly hdpe?

I'm having some difficulties as well with staying within weight while using hdpe.
I keep cutiing out pieces I do not need to lose some weight.

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Originally Posted by limpet

RPM looks vicious but how much does it weigh? I`m asking because I`m having big difficulties with the weight of Nefarious and its smaller and mainly hdpe?

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Just popped it on the scales, without receiver and with a rather minuscule 3S battery it weighs just under 1.4kg.

Nefarious's problems probably stem from the larger battery. Other than that it's more armoured and solid than something like RPM.
How is the weapon going with that?

Armour wise RPM is quite light and thin by comparison to Nefarious.

Headbanger is just a smudge over the limit, nothing a bit of pocketing won't fix.

Ok guys, just so you are aware, we will be doing tech checks for the beetles, but we won't be doing it quite like the FRA's ones (their rules all say FW and above for a lot of things), but to pass check, it must:
Failsafe on drive and weapon
Have a removable link
Locking bar
Sharp edge protection
1.5kg (5g tolerance) in weight

so no led?

Would be nice, but not essential.

What counts as a suitable locking bar? i know that at the champs this year i saw clamps and what not so would they be allowed or does it have to be a proper locking bar?

G clamps are fine with me.

^^ What he said :)