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by Lincoln
Sun Jun 10, 2018 10:02 am
Forum: Questions (and answers)
Topic: Walker rule clarification? Unusual design.
Replies: 30
Views: 42113

Re: Walker rule clarification? Unusual design.

ah my bad, miss read what Dave was saying
by Lincoln
Sun Jun 10, 2018 9:11 am
Forum: Questions (and answers)
Topic: Walker rule clarification? Unusual design.
Replies: 30
Views: 42113

Re: Walker rule clarification? Unusual design.

give people a bigger range of creative freedom for the 4th team slot. Currently only walkers, shufflers and clusters qualify but I'd probably vote to extend that to bristlebots and vibro-bots, gyro-movers, hovercraft, jumpers and anything else which doesn't use wheels or a wheel-like method of prop...
by Lincoln
Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:26 pm
Forum: Questions (and answers)
Topic: Walker rule clarification? Unusual design.
Replies: 30
Views: 42113

Re: Walker rule clarification? Unusual design.

your not the only one that thinks that way Dave just the most vocal. having designed what i believe to be one of the most effective walking mechanisms implemented in antwights. i would agree that a bristle bot should not get the extra wight allowance of a walker, without getting into anything about ...
by Lincoln
Sat Jun 02, 2018 11:38 am
Forum: Autonomous and Intelligent Systems
Topic: AutoBot
Replies: 18
Views: 94417

Re: AutoBot

note to self. when probing the motor driver pins, be EXTREMELY careful. all was going well, we were testing the new motor driving algorithm on the driveway, then we decided to put it in the grass, it doesn't move, seems the motor gearing is to low to have enough power to go though grass. which means...
by Lincoln
Tue May 22, 2018 5:41 pm
Forum: Questions (and answers)
Topic: Posting photos
Replies: 7
Views: 15119

Re: Posting photos

i used to use jpeg compression tools to compress picture to the point that they were small enough to put on this site directly. i've now started using google pictures shared albums, as this is free, easy to do. simply put pictures into an album on your android phone or online though your google acco...
by Lincoln
Mon May 14, 2018 3:19 pm
Forum: Autonomous and Intelligent Systems
Topic: AutoBot
Replies: 18
Views: 94417

Re: AutoBot

looks pretty good. maybe if i make another antwight scale pcb then ill use that chip but it dose indeed seem difficult to get. but there is a pololu board available with it on.
i would say that the 10V minimum input would mean you have no choice but to use at least 3 cells rather than 2.
by Lincoln
Mon May 14, 2018 9:36 am
Forum: Autonomous and Intelligent Systems
Topic: AutoBot
Replies: 18
Views: 94417

Re: AutoBot

we have some of the short range and the 1m range versions of theses. but those 4m range ones look good. currently the plankbot uses 2 of the 1m rage ones at the moment. we use a fpga for the encoders, mostly because the main processor dose not have enough spare io pins that we haven't already used. ...
by Lincoln
Sun May 13, 2018 5:20 pm
Forum: Autonomous and Intelligent Systems
Topic: AutoBot
Replies: 18
Views: 94417

Re: AutoBot

urrrm oops. kinda forgot to update this page. well we made a prototype on a piece of wood, named plank-bot. put range sensors and neopixels on and got it to drive to stay a set distance from anything in front of it.this worked realy well. next we tried hot air soldering the large motor driver chips ...
by Lincoln
Wed May 02, 2018 8:10 pm
Forum: Questions (and answers)
Topic: Rule Debates
Replies: 66
Views: 110016

Re: Rule Debates

Due to damage being a very obvious thing to judge on, when fights are taken to a judges decision, the spinner shall almost always be awarded the win. i agree. This is why we need official guidance on how to judge fights, preferably not completely on damage and other factors should be considered mor...
by Lincoln
Wed May 02, 2018 3:50 pm
Forum: Questions (and answers)
Topic: Rule Debates
Replies: 66
Views: 110016

Re: Rule Debates

i think the drop off of arenas is fine at the moment, Pete's arena is great in my opinion and don't see a reason for the rules to enforce 1 exact percentage, just say that there has to be some but not all of the arena as drop off. however i do think that there are too many spinners around at the mom...