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by olivers
Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:30 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: New Robots
Replies: 1516
Views: 1018821

In answer to the above: At WS15 a few weeks ago I did rather well with SD200's. Odyssey uses straight SD200's as drive and to power the lifter and it got 2nd place. Hyper Puppy with speed modded SD200's and got 4th place. Look at Scott's page for details: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sandra.arthurs/...
by olivers
Fri Nov 12, 2004 10:21 am
Forum: Resource Websites
Topic: AntWeight Parts Online & Offline
Replies: 187
Views: 257686

Having a look around and found some nice tracks:

http://www.pololu.com/products/misc/0415/

Looking into it a bit more:

http://www.britishrobotics.com/

And they are in Reading :smile:

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by olivers
Tue Jul 06, 2004 2:51 pm
Forum: Resource Websites
Topic: AntWeight Parts Online & Offline
Replies: 187
Views: 257686

Jon, what are you specifically after.

By the way I think there was a rule against naked flames
by olivers
Fri May 28, 2004 3:30 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: New Robots
Replies: 1516
Views: 1018821

Go for it but just choose a name different enough and don't paint it all black otherwise too many people will be confused
by olivers
Thu May 27, 2004 1:20 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: New Robots
Replies: 1516
Views: 1018821

Anteaters min and i'm happy for anyone to build a copy on 2 conditions:

1) The name is a lot different to distingiush between them.
2) It's not as good as the original, that's a joke
by olivers
Thu May 13, 2004 2:18 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: New Robots
Replies: 1516
Views: 1018821

And Griffon
by olivers
Thu May 13, 2004 12:53 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: New Robots
Replies: 1516
Views: 1018821

For 20g you can get a lifter/flipper or axe.

As for names, anything that takes my fancy or describes the ant well.

Marco, you need an ant clusterbot called Dirty Pair :smile: I never got into the Berserk Manga
by olivers
Wed May 05, 2004 1:01 pm
Forum: Resource Websites
Topic: AntWeight Parts Online & Offline
Replies: 187
Views: 257686

Have a look at SH Muffet, http://www.muffett.co.uk I can't see them on the site but the catalogue has plastic timing belts and pulleys. I'd be tempted to look at the Sozbots site as they have plastic chains and cogs and the postage isn't too bad (and you can get carbon fibre/titanium/polycarb at the...
by olivers
Fri Apr 02, 2004 12:04 pm
Forum: Resource Websites
Topic: AntWeight Parts Online & Offline
Replies: 187
Views: 257686

The development is here:

http://www.solarbotics.net/gallery/Wowwee-Robosapien

The downside is the robot uses a wobble in it's hips to walk rather than using knees. The arm movement makes up for it however.
by olivers
Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:45 pm
Forum: Resource Websites
Topic: AntWeight Parts Online & Offline
Replies: 187
Views: 257686

I know this is well OT but it's a tad cool:

http://www.wowwee.com/catalog/other_robosapien.html

How good would it be with a shoulder mounted vulcan cannon?