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Hi Ewan, and welcome to Antweights!
I think you will find them quite different to featherweights in almost every respect.
If you're on a limited budget, servos are almost certainly the cheapest way to go. Designing and building an ant is very different to a feather, I thnk you really need to start with a different mind-set.
For example, a reciever is easily "lost in a corner" in a feather, yet in an ant it takes up a significant amount of space and often the rest of the ant is designed around it! Similarly it's quite easy in a feather to keep the receiver away from the motors, batteries and other sources of interference. In an ant it's impossible to keep anything very far from anything else. Yet still there is interference to think about...
Good luck with your design and hope to see you at AWS21. If you have any questions don't heasitate to shout!
I think you will find them quite different to featherweights in almost every respect.
If you're on a limited budget, servos are almost certainly the cheapest way to go. Designing and building an ant is very different to a feather, I thnk you really need to start with a different mind-set.
For example, a reciever is easily "lost in a corner" in a feather, yet in an ant it takes up a significant amount of space and often the rest of the ant is designed around it! Similarly it's quite easy in a feather to keep the receiver away from the motors, batteries and other sources of interference. In an ant it's impossible to keep anything very far from anything else. Yet still there is interference to think about...
Good luck with your design and hope to see you at AWS21. If you have any questions don't heasitate to shout!
Gary, Team BeligerAnt
I think we might just take that offer. Hold on to it for us please.josh wrote:chris, if u want a brushed speed controller then i have 2 5 amp 1s and a 2 amp 1 which i am willing to sell as i have no use for them willl sell for a 5er (includes postage)
Also, our new DT teacher practically burned holes through my proposal to make Project: Nemesis a DT Coursework project as it says in my website.
Nick.
PS: How do you manage a huge avatar in less than 8 Kilobytes?
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[quote="Nemesis...How do you manage a huge avatar in less than 8 Kilobytes?[/quote]
First, use a GIF image. Second, reduce the number of colours. Third, look at the size of the final GIF file, not the size of the raw bitmap that your graphics program might be telling you!
Please keep avater files to a sensible size, both in bytes and number of pixels.
First, use a GIF image. Second, reduce the number of colours. Third, look at the size of the final GIF file, not the size of the raw bitmap that your graphics program might be telling you!
Please keep avater files to a sensible size, both in bytes and number of pixels.
Gary, Team BeligerAnt
That won't work because the design uses 'pre-manufactured components'. And yes I started being what some people consider 'cheeky' but I consider 'desperate'.Adam Hargreaves wrote:Nick-it might just be a case of rewording the project to get it usable as coursework, which is what i had to do for A-level. Once i reworded it, it was accepted (on third time of asking!)
By the way I used PNG. I consider it's compression better (considering the number of colours you can use). If I used a modestly-sized animated GIF for my avatar would you mind terribly? It cycles once and stops by default.
Nick.
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