Cheap antweight kits

[peterwaller]

I wasn't trying to say it is the same as the HP just the normal Pololu motors.
Unfortunately I don't have a standard 50:1 to compare it with but here are the figures I can compare.
.......................Pololu 50:1.........Ebay 6v 300rpm
Quoted Speed.........250rpm................300rpm
Off load Current......40ma...................33.5ma measured
Stall Current..........360ma..................600ma measured

[colts0455]

IM NEW TO THIS IMEAN I WAS YOUNGER LOVED BATTLEBOTS BUT REALLY WANNA MAKE AND ANTWEIGHT WHERE DO I GO WHAT DO I NEED

WANNA SPENT LIKE 200BUCKS ???? ANY1 HELP

[colts0455]

As a first-time builder, I admit to being surprised at how low-cost everything was when building EricA and KMA. I think the likes of eBay and GiantCod are a massive help in this weight class, more so than they are in, say, featherweights. There's money to be saved as well if you don't mind compromising and going for a slightly lower-quality or lower-spec component that does a similar job (such as using servo boards instead of a dedicated speed controller). Even Simon's example of Kitty can be cut down price-wise by downgrading a couple of components:

Kitty

£4 for two wheels
£25 for two motors ( Solarbotics 30:1 Mini Metal Gear Motor )
£3 for two motor mounts
£46 for a motor controller
£40 for a Transmitter and receiver
£4 for a 1mm Polycarbonate sheet
£28 for a Battery charger
£8 for a Lithium Polymer battery (120mAh 2S (7.4V))

Total = £158

Alternatively:

£4 for two wheels
£9 for two motors (using the cheap eBay replicas)
£3 for two motor mounts
£8 for a motor controller (servo boards, new from GiantCod at £4 each)
£25 for a Transmitter and receiver (cheap E-Flite DSM2 + compatible receiver. eBay)
£4 for a 1mm Polycarbonate sheet
£6 for a Battery charger (http://www.component-shop.co.uk)
£4 for a 6V, 120mAh Ni-MH battery (http://www.component-shop.co.uk)

Total = £63
Saving = £95

Some things mentioned above have only become available or noticed recently, compared to when the Kitty list was made. And of course, when you're young and working with limited funds, £95 is a lot of money saved! Definitely the cheapest way to get into robot combat right now.

WANNA BUILD ONE WHERE DO I START THANKS

[Gizz]

Hi there and welcome!
Your best start is possibly to check out some antweight threads on this forum, but most of the stuff (radio transmitter and reciever, batteries, servos etc)
can be bought at your local rc hobby shop.
Try getting a 2,4gHz radio control set and as light reciever and batteries as possible, servos as light as possible.
There are a few good types of servos posted in different threads on this forum.
For drive you can use micro gear motors instead of servos but these require a speed controller which brings the price up a bit.

But probably the best place to get to know about roboteering is to attend to an event like AWS (antweight world series), there is one coming up soon.

ps: lease dont type your whole text in capital letters :/