Me and my team are considering using air propulsion in an antweight. We have considered using a hovercraft idea or using ball bearings. Does anyone else have any ideas of how to reduce friction on the robot so it will move smoothley?
Surely if you are going to use air or ball bearings then your going to be a prime target to pushers because you will then have no traction and flippers will just get straight underneath you!?
Not to mention how many fans you would need to give accurate control!
The steering wont be a problem as we have worked out a method of staying manouverable with only one fan. a later addition may be a roll cage to deal with flippers and if we came up against a pusher we could probably outmanouvre it or go straight over the top of them.
I dont think so Richard
Anto has spikes to stop peopledriving over the top of it.
as for trying t out manouver? have you seen how quick the ants are these days?
I can see there being lots of net butterfly net type weapons emerging in the ant class :-)
i think it is possible but in the weight would be a hell of a challenge
ye but chris when is it ever not a challenge?
Gary, you should build an antweight version of Typhoon 2
already exsists
its called corkscrew from memory
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