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This is an old revision of AntGuide from 2012-03-27 14:16:42.

This Guide is currently in progress! - 27/03/2012



Aaron's Guide to Building an Antweight


This is not meant to be comprehensive guide on how to do everything this is just meant to be an overview of what you need to get started and some discussion on design.

Safety

Combat robots are dangerous that is one of the reasons why putting them in an arena and watching them destroy each other is fun. This means that they are also capable of destroying you. Despite this building robot can be done in a safe manner if you think about what you are doing and take a few precautions. All the weapons you can build basically rely on the transfer of large amounts of energy into the other robot whether by spinning, flipping, launching, ect. So simply don't test these sorts of weapons in situations where you are not adequately protected. Do it in an arena or equivalent area with safety measures in place to ensure you don't get hurt! Antweights are only small robots, but they are to be treated with the utmost respect as they can be highly dangerous (You don't play tennis with a grenade do you?).

There is many other things which I haven't covered here but if you have any doubts before doing something don't do it.
I take no responsibility for any injury sustained by building anything shown in this guide. If you don't have the skills, tools or patience to do it properly and safely STOP NOW



Rules

Most events now use the standard RFL rules set. Jump to the Rules Section and have a read before you go much further.

Just quickly before you ask. "Why can't I build an EMP or use radio jammer or use a gun on the robot?" Have a think about what would happen...
With an EMP you would put the two robots in the arena one would set off EMP... other robot would sit still. Not going to be the most interesting thing to watch. There is a reason why there is restrictions on the weapons. Whether it is for safety, to keep things interesting or just prevent undue damage to the arena. The rules have been refined over 10 years so they are pretty well thought out. So just ask yourself why before complaining about the restrictions.



The Design

When it comes to building your robot, you should always have some form of design planned before you start physically building. This helps save possible heart ache, costs and time when you get half way through and realize X part of the design just won't fit or won't work as expected. Below we will go through two common designs of antweight robots which I have built for competition and explain what thought process and design ideas went into each robot. This will hopefully give you an insight into what you will need to look at when designing and building your own antweight robot.


Design - Wedge
Robot - Flying Wedge

Flying Wedge

The Plan:

Drive:

Weapon:

Electronics:

Battery:

Armour/Chassis:

Weight:

Design - Spinner
Robot - Scarlet

Scarlet

The Plan:

Drive:

Weapon:

Electronics:

Battery:

Armour/Chassis:

Weight:

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