RogueTwo Robots

[jonny]

but the design is flawed in antweights because of the 50% drop-off rule; the ricochets from impacts would be uncontrollable therefore it would probably spend most of its time throwing itself out of the arena. It would really need a fully sealed arena to stand any chance of succeeding. .

lol, just like mgm (antweight fbs with tuna can shell) and mgm2 (antweight overhead bar spinner) was alot of fun but got written off by militant :P

[Anttazz]

That drawing doesn't look too far away from Eric's shape but I see what you mean about the slight reduction in relative length, still looks close enough though . The 1.5mm aluminium armour will be thicker than big Erics though

[RogueTwoRobots]

Yeah, it's not that accurate but once it's all coloured up to match, you should be able to tell what it is

Not got off to the best of starts though, was hacking some old servos to use the boards as speed controllers but out of four, I currently only have one working one due to broken bits/overheated circuits/random failures on the rest, so I took the lazy way out and bought two 2A controllers off eBay

[RogueTwoRobots]

Update

The mini Chaos 2 has been shelved for the upcoming AWS as I was having problems with both the drive and weapon. The drive wheels weren't touching the ground equally so it was struggling to steer in a straight line and then I buggered the weapon servo which just compounded a rather frustrating day yesterday.

So I decided to take all the parts I had for a fleaweight and throw them into an Electronize cover and add a polycarb wedge. Introducing:

Kiss My Asimov







Weighs in at 59g, so got 16g spare to devote to a little more armour. The wheels were external originally but that meant it couldn't fit in the 3 cube so I had to rip everything out and start over again. But it's a fun little beastie to drive

Progress on EricA is much slower. I've only got some of the chassis made and one wheel/motor combo attached. It looks quite odd and un-Eric-ish due to the size restriction. Eric's quite a bit longer than it is wide, but the ant is pretty square and has to be rather tall to fit everything in. Hopefully it'll bear a resemblance once it's all finished though:



I have to admit, these things take a lot more work than I anticipated, possibly because I'm not used to building at this scale. I could throw a basic featherweight together in a weekend but struggled to get a 150g creation made in the same time-frame. Oh well, gives me something to do with my evenings this week...

[razerdave]

Goes to show that a competitive ant is not an easy build. Its got its challenges like the other 3 active weight classes (Beetle, feather and heavy)

[RogueTwoRobots]

Wait, what? Who said anything about this ant being competitive?!

[Anttazz]

Hard to tell from here, are the wheels going to be exposed (Robot Wars Eric) or inboard (Eric now)? A pointless detail, but just helping you with your accuracy

[PJ-27]

You could start a trend Jamie whereby you make a smaller weight class out of a component from a larger one.

Next week, I wanna see a FW in a Bosch 750, ok?

hahahaha

[Laser]

That would be awsome(bit samlll though)

[RogueTwoRobots]

Hard to tell from here, are the wheels going to be exposed (Robot Wars Eric) or inboard (Eric now)? A pointless detail, but just helping you with your accuracy

Umm, both :P

They'll be mounted inside, but the side armour starts off vertical and then slants up to the top, so I'm going to have cut-outs in the armour to clear the wheels (the wheels are a bit large in proportion to the rest of the robot). So yes, technically they'll be in and out.

A FW in a Bosch 750? Challenge accepted!