fleas

peterwaller · Post by **peterwaller** » Wed Nov 17, 2010 6:45 pm

Very impressive you seem to have started a bit of a resurgence in fleas.

Jonny · Post by **Jonny** » Wed Nov 17, 2010 7:32 pm

the eyes on the wheels are so cool!

alasdair · Post by **alasdair** » Wed Nov 17, 2010 8:56 pm

The awesomeness of that bot has now made me want to make a flea!

Congrats my good sir!

earthwormjim · Post by **earthwormjim** » Wed Nov 17, 2010 9:03 pm

LOL! Thanks chaps.
The eyes were ?1.50 dolls eyes from flea-bay(pun intended

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I dont think they will last very long in battle,but it should be pretty funny when they go flying around the arena!!

haz · Post by **haz** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 5:53 pm

check this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm56yRqj5Ag

what do you think

joey_picus · Post by **joey_picus** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 7:39 pm

It doesn't look bad actually

how much weight is there left for armour/weapons?

haz · Post by **haz** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:23 pm

well it weighs 40g without armour or wepon so quite a lot to play with

earthwormjim · Post by **earthwormjim** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:29 am

40g! Wow,plenty of scope for armour/weapon.

Excellent!!! The fleaweight army is amassing on the horizon!!!!

razerdave · Post by **razerdave** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 9:04 pm

I've been quite inspired by Jim's Blue Ringed Octopus (I'm looking forward to seeing it fight with Bruce as a clusterbot; Octobruce (thought it sounded like Octopus)), but I do wonder how the hell that thing is so far underweight with all the metal bars and such ? Whats the frame made of ?

I am going to be fully rebuilding Divinity to have a better construction and a blade similar to that on Fleabite, but I am wondering what materials I should use to make it. ATM the base is 3mm HDPE, the speedo is pete's option B63 (with the 2g spektrum receiver), 2 gear motors, a 100mA battery, but that will likely change to a 120mA due to Fleabite ripping the lead off the old one, an 18mm brushless outrunner (same one Antipathy uses) and a 1mm Ti blade which is currently secured on with glue, but that will need to change, but the robot currenty weighs 76g, and its got no armour. Any suggestions ?

I had considered 1mm CF for the base and welded 1mm HDPE for the shell, wasn't sure if 0.5mm CF would be stiff enough.

haz · Post by **haz** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 9:23 pm

hmm, speed hacked servos are quite good weight wise 6g each, they will have little torque and you dont have to waste weight on a speed controler and scince they have casing they can be glues eliminating mounting brackets, if shorten wires it gets weight down (from 78g to 73g) or drill holes, atm i use 1mm ali and 3mm plastic without any major holes, my new flea came too 73g and that was with a bl***y heavy rx (about 12g)
thats my 2p any way