Blast from the past

Marco Roberts · Post by **Marco Roberts** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:05 am

I was doing some pointless browsing and came arcross this.
One of the sites that got me into ants. Any body have anything similar?

http://freespace.virgin.net/chris.sherwood/index.htm

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 6:13 am

We should have a golden oldies competition where you can only use servos, no LiPos and no polycarbonate or metal. I think that Pants would still be compliant!

Simon

Craig_Anto3 · Post by **Craig_Anto3** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:57 am

isnt Ronny a goldern oldie too

i've still got the original Anto 3 that won AWS6 could pop that in it

Marco Roberts · Post by **Marco Roberts** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:52 am

http://www.antweight.co.uk/results/ws7/ ... p_0033.jpg
The first psycho ant

Post by **BeligerAnt** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:33 pm

RONNY at AWS8:
http://www.antweight.co.uk/results/ws8/dcp_0041.jpg

The current RONNY shares only the name, battery pack and crystal with the original!

How things have changed over the last 5 years. I think Odyssey is the least changed of the "old school" robots still running, even Pants has gone to speed-hacked servos.

Marco Roberts · Post by **Marco Roberts** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:05 pm

are you kidding. Oddessy at aws 1 looked completly different. I would say pants as the ant which has not changed at all apart from being speed hacked.

Post by **BeligerAnt** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:12 pm

Odyssey certainly hasn't changed much since AWS8:

http://www.antweight.co.uk/results/ws8/dcp_0058.jpg

and nor has Anteater:

http://www.antweight.co.uk/results/ws8/dcp_0062.jpg

... in fact what has Oliver been doing???

EpicentrE · Post by **EpicentrE** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:22 pm

Ahh yes, I remember the time when I designed Void on paper and bodged it all together with lots of hot glue (Clicky)

How times do indeed change. Nowadays everything is designed, redesigned and redesigned probably 2-3 times at the minimum in CAD (The reason you havnt seen Zenith at an event for a while is that I'm still redesigning it - have 8 fully completed CADs of different designs thats have never seen the light of day. I have one I think I'm happy with now though

), before it's machined...and I'm looking into getting CNC early next year... ><

Does it make my robots any better? Not really

Still havn't won that AWS trophy I crave so. Does it make building them more fun? IMO, yes.

Marco Roberts · Post by **Marco Roberts** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:39 am

http://freespace.virgin.net/oliver.steeples/enter.htm

odessy in its cool digger look

Flippt · Post by **Flippt** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:26 am

Flippt in its early days