That Bloke owes me big time Mr Ian Bloody Swann, having wrote him a quick guide on how to build an antweight and giving him pictures videos and anto he had the article published, but no mention of who had given hm the info or a thank you, big thing for me was the fact the guide was almost word for word what i sent him.Andrew_Hibberd wrote:I saw extreme but that didn't convince me
it was the artical in the real robots magazine about how to build an antweight. Then that was that.
How did you get Into Antweights?
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Ohhh how I got into ants is quite a story.
I basicaly got into Robot wars and was prity set on building a robot. But i was quite young at the time and really didnt have enough know how. I however did play around a lot with small electronics and I flew with my dad rc planes. Once I got hold of the internet for the first time on the dreamcast (yes I was that much of an internet noob) I started checking out robots on the web.
I then wondered onto robotwars.com (didnt know about .co.uk yes i know nooby) and joined the forums.
I then while messing around with my various scaletrix motors and other various electronics from rc plains, I had a brain storm. Why not a minitur versoin of robot wars. I was thinking like 500g to a kilo or something but I had all ready made a couple of moving almost ant weight things.
I posted my stuff on the forums and then walla I got a couple of messeges back, with constructive comments. Then one guy told me some very good news. It has all ready been done!? I was so happy, I checked his link straight away and was sent to the tin web website.
There I joined and spammed for a while before I learned self respect and that these guys didnt like topics created
I was on the site just after aws 1 and was reading how poor close shave was too heavy to compete. This was before aws2 were alan managed to shave some weight, competed and won aws 2.
So thats prity much it for how I got started. I was embarressed but got the guts to compete at aws 4 ( was quite a while before I competed) and I sucked. Compared to craig which was his first time (as far as im aware) and won the comp.
So thats how I got started....
I basicaly got into Robot wars and was prity set on building a robot. But i was quite young at the time and really didnt have enough know how. I however did play around a lot with small electronics and I flew with my dad rc planes. Once I got hold of the internet for the first time on the dreamcast (yes I was that much of an internet noob) I started checking out robots on the web.
I then wondered onto robotwars.com (didnt know about .co.uk yes i know nooby) and joined the forums.
I then while messing around with my various scaletrix motors and other various electronics from rc plains, I had a brain storm. Why not a minitur versoin of robot wars. I was thinking like 500g to a kilo or something but I had all ready made a couple of moving almost ant weight things.
I posted my stuff on the forums and then walla I got a couple of messeges back, with constructive comments. Then one guy told me some very good news. It has all ready been done!? I was so happy, I checked his link straight away and was sent to the tin web website.
There I joined and spammed for a while before I learned self respect and that these guys didnt like topics created
I was on the site just after aws 1 and was reading how poor close shave was too heavy to compete. This was before aws2 were alan managed to shave some weight, competed and won aws 2.
So thats prity much it for how I got started. I was embarressed but got the guts to compete at aws 4 ( was quite a while before I competed) and I sucked. Compared to craig which was his first time (as far as im aware) and won the comp.
So thats how I got started....
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What got me into ants
3 things:
1: I missed battlebots on TV
2: I played a game called "robot rage" and I wanted to build a real robot
3: I went to robotamarketplace and found an ant section, and I really wanted to make one!
1: I missed battlebots on TV
2: I played a game called "robot rage" and I wanted to build a real robot
3: I went to robotamarketplace and found an ant section, and I really wanted to make one!