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by daliad100
Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:01 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: charging smaller lipo batteries
Replies: 8
Views: 8215

Re: charging smaller lipo batteries

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Left connector is the balance lead one and goes into the charger, right connectors are the micro jst's for your batteries.
by daliad100
Wed Dec 12, 2012 3:50 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: charging smaller lipo batteries
Replies: 8
Views: 8215

Re: charging smaller lipo batteries

That one can only do 2s or 3s lipo's. You could probably cheat and solder a couple of micro jst connectors to the balance lead and get it to treat the cells a 2s or 3s battery. As it's balancing the cells and you won't be soldering cells together you shouldn't get any explosions.
by daliad100
Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:03 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Help! Need materials
Replies: 8
Views: 18203

Re: Help! Need materials

Aren't crisp packets foil coated plastic aka near enough to mylar?

Get eating.
by daliad100
Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:42 am
Forum: Questions (and answers)
Topic: Mechanisms
Replies: 2
Views: 2962

Re: Mechanisms

Would allowing slip in the drive via a friction clutch or belt work? Static friction coefficient (not slipping) is generally more than Dynamic friction coefficient (slipping) so when the output shaft is stalled the load on it is reduced making more power available to the other outputs. I may be talk...
by daliad100
Fri Mar 16, 2012 8:29 am
Forum: Fleaweights
Topic: Flea weight quastions
Replies: 4
Views: 23155

Re: Flea weight quastions

Yes it does. It has to fit in a 3" by 3" cube but that is in any orientation so you can have a robot longer/wider than 3".
by daliad100
Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:43 pm
Forum: Questions (and answers)
Topic: General questions for first robot
Replies: 34
Views: 23004

Re: General questions for first robot

They may not be good for mini sumo robots where you have 500g to play with but for an ant they should have enough torque.
by daliad100
Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:05 am
Forum: Questions (and answers)
Topic: Ant weight arena
Replies: 7
Views: 6503

Re: Ant weight arena

I'd build it like an antweight flipper but with a much bigger servo. A servo tester with a push button attached in the right place would allow you to fire it without using a transmitter.
by daliad100
Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:11 pm
Forum: Autonomous and Intelligent Systems
Topic: Toyota Challenge Program
Replies: 2
Views: 21925

Re: Toyota Challenge Program

I'm pretty certain that if you send a pulsout command every 20ms to a servo you can drive it. You'll have to figure out what value to give the pulsout as it depends on the clock speed of the chip. Then chuck it in with something like this so you don't have to do as much maths on the chip, save an ou...
by daliad100
Mon Dec 19, 2011 3:42 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: New Roboteer!
Replies: 96
Views: 58811

Re: New Roboteer!

Tried it for a 4s lipo, blew up 3/4 of the cells in the process. If you do want to solder them together then it's easy to pull of the plastic cap but be careful about shorting out the connections (Fried one cell that way). I cut off the micro jst connectors and soldered the remaining wire to the cor...
by daliad100
Fri Nov 11, 2011 2:57 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: New Roboteer!
Replies: 96
Views: 58811

Re: New Roboteer!

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Is that the one you meant?
I can really see the resemblance.