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Knightrous Site Admin
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IIRC, there was 15-16 ants at the Nationals.
Beetleweights there are probably only 8-10 in the whole country, with most residing in Sydney. How many show up, not many _________________ https://www.halfdonethings.com/
Tue Oct 08, 2013 11:55 am
Jaemus Experienced Roboteer
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BUILD MORE BEETLES YOU LAZY BANANA BENDERS
_________________ <Patrician|Away> what does your robot do, sam
<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls
Lol
I'd love to start building one because I look at them as a heavy weight ant and with ants it's hard to stay under 150g if you want them to look cool and be very strong, however with beetles there's so much more room to play with engineering and using stronger materials. I do wish they fight them in a custom built large beetle tank and not putting them in the featherweight tank.
Tue Oct 08, 2013 6:54 pm
Knightrous Site Admin
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quote:Originally posted by MichaelDobos:
Lol
with ants it's hard to stay under 150g if you want them to look cool and be very strong, however with beetles there's so much more room to play with engineering and using stronger materials.
You will say this about every weight class until you actually build one within the weight limit
This reminds me of the fat feather class back in the day. But then we were all using SLAs which was a little different. _________________ Steven Martin
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I should just make one like that guy with the coke can : p
Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:12 am
Jaemus Experienced Roboteer
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We do have a purpose built beetle arena in nsw. But it's a lot of work to set up when you can just use a feather arena with some barriers. Which adds another dimension to it as you can be thrown out of the arena. Since I have a drum bot, I can say that I prefer that to a pit, haha _________________ <Patrician|Away> what does your robot do, sam
<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls
H guys
I was very lucky today to get a brand new receiver and handset with crystals for $15 on eBay . Only problem is I have no ideas as to where the power goes ? I see 6 rows of pins each row havering 3 pins but if I start randomly plugins in my battery I will cook the receiver like I did to my other one lol
Please help : /
Thanks
Michael
Sat Nov 16, 2013 9:46 am
Knightrous Site Admin
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quote:Originally posted by MichaelDobos:
H guys
I was very lucky today to get a brand new receiver and handset with crystals for $15 on eBay .
If your buying radio gear that still uses crystals (AM/FM), your buying stuff that is way too old (and not very safe) to be using for robots.
For $30 you can get the brand new Hobby King 2.4Ghz radio and receiver, which plenty of people use in antweights.
Why is it not safe ?
I went to the site and had a look but I needed a receiver with the plugs on the side.
Is there anyone who could help me with am/fm receivers ?
I'm using hacked mini servos for motors so I'm not sure now where to put the neg and pos from the servo to the receiver and the same deal with the battery lol
Sat Nov 16, 2013 3:58 pm
Jaemus Experienced Roboteer
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Generally the negative wire on the servo plug (usually black or brown) goes on the outside column of pins _________________ <Patrician|Away> what does your robot do, sam
<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls
FM Radios are not a good idea. And were the main reason robots just used to sit still in the past.
2.4Ghz provides a massive difference in the connection robustness, pretty much eliminates any stray noise and your robot still works when you put it in the arena. As far as safety goes the ESCs should take care of that to some extent but it is possible to get noise and stray signals.
$30 + p/h is worth your sanity, nobody uses FM anymore for good reason. _________________ Steven Martin
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