Hi, As some people already know we have decided to start up a 1kg weight class. This will be open to robots from 0g-1000g. The FRA does not currently have any rules for robots of this weight class so we are going to follow the featherweight and above rules, This means all robots will need a removeable link, a power light, sharp edge protection, a cradle, a locking device on all weapons and robots must failsafe. Robots will need to be tech checked before the are allowed to battle. Robots with spinning weapons will be tech checked on the bench as usual but the spinning weapon will be tested in a secure arena.

Im building an arena. The arena can be either a 2000mm X 2000mm battle box or a 1500mm x 1500mm arena using a removable 50mm high internal wall leaving a 250mm out of the arena zone. The arena floor will be 1000mm from the ground and the arena roof will be 800mm above the arena floor. There isnt currently any FRA guidlines to follow for an arena for 1kg robots so I have gone way over the top on the specs. A featherweight arena that allows spinneres requires 10mm polycarb on the walls and 5mm polycarb on the roof. Im going 10mm on the walls 10mm on the roof. Here are some of the specs:
Arena Frame 30mm x 30mm x 3mm steel box section
Arena Floor 4 1000mm x 1000mm x 3mm steel plates
Internal Wall 50mm x 5mm Steel
Arena Wall 10mm Polycarb with 100mm x 5mm steel around the bottom
Arena Roof 10mm Polycarb
Wall Frame 40mm x 40mm x 3mm steel Angle
Roof Frame 40mm x 40mm x 3mm steel Angle with 75mm x 5mm brace

For now we wont have any arena hazards, we will let people suggest hazards once the arenas done and see what the most popular ones are. I was going to go for the traditional arena flipper and pit with a house robot, but maybe you guys fancy a change, maybe a spinning bar or a pneumatic hammer or rotating sections of floor or pneumatic spikes or a crush zone.

Theres a few people interested in building robots in this weight class at the moment and we hope to get alot more people interested. You can enter with anything 1kg or less, Even if its a few antweights as a cluster, Or even just an antweight. Theres 3 of so far just using antweight drive systems so if you did have a cluster of ants you wouldnt be completely overpowered by the heavier robots.

This weight class was made just as a bit of fun, Bit of an odd weight class but it should be fun. It started off just me Kenny and Calum talking about it we decided we were going to build the robots within 1kg and have an arena to fight in. Then after talking about it a few big group chats on msn more people became interested. Anyone else interested?

Try keep all kilo posts in this thread, so your build diaries, specs, questions and general kilo chat all in here.

Cheers.