AW Rules

[daliad100]

Re: AW Rules

I think he means tank steering but the sabertooth has inbuilt mixing to put drive on one stick leaving yourother hand free to control your weapon.

[sabotageDave]

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Yeah, well not exactly skid steer, but pretty much the same. just where each track is controlled separately, forward and back, skid steer implies they only go forward and turn by stopping one side.

I don't intend to use a weapon, I'm going for simplest of simple, a push-bot, I'll think about weapons later... When I know what I'm doing. :shock:

Now before I go spending many pennies I need to find a reasonable transmitter at 40 MHz that has the right configuration, now this I am having trouble with... Know any online shops or shops around York anyone?

Thanks again for the feedback, am I getting annoying yet? :P

[joey_picus]

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Nope, you aren't you're being reasonable in fact.

You can get batteries and servoes, as well as radio gear, from Micron Radio Control who are based in Malton, but most people tend to buy online - delivery from places like Technobots and Robot Bits (both of which sell motors, speed controllers, and wheels among other things) and MUTR (polycarbonate and other plastic/metal sheet for armour - check under Modern Materials) as well as eBay sellers tends to be quite timely and affordable.

For a first robot I'd reccommend getting the Sabertooth 2x5A for R/C speed controller as it comes with a nice sheet explaining how to wire things up and what the switch settings do, and with that and some radio gear you should be pretty much set - there will hopefully be at least one Antweight World Series 'oop north' as they say around here in the first half of next year, either in Hull or Pontefract, but in the meantime you're welcome to take whatever robot you end up with to the Preston Roaming Robots event in February (?) 2011 and have a go with it there, I'll be in attendance with a couple of other ant builders and hopefully Jonno should have his bespoke arena ready for us to fight in then.

[sabotageDave]

Re: AW Rules

Nope, you aren't you're being reasonable in fact.

You can get batteries and servoes, as well as radio gear, from Micron Radio Control who are based in Malton, but most people tend to buy online - delivery from places like Technobots and Robot Bits (both of which sell motors, speed controllers, and wheels among other things) and MUTR (polycarbonate and other plastic/metal sheet for armour - check under Modern Materials) as well as eBay sellers tends to be quite timely and affordable.

For a first robot I'd reccommend getting the Sabertooth 2x5A for R/C speed controller as it comes with a nice sheet explaining how to wire things up and what the switch settings do, and with that and some radio gear you should be pretty much set - there will hopefully be at least one Antweight World Series 'oop north' as they say around here in the first half of next year, either in Hull or Pontefract, but in the meantime you're welcome to take whatever robot you end up with to the Preston Roaming Robots event in February (?) 2011 and have a go with it there, I'll be in attendance with a couple of other ant builders and hopefully Jonno should have his bespoke arena ready for us to fight in then.

Good good

Aye I've been looking around Technobots a bit, seems quite thorough, apart from their transmitter section!
There's some places local to me where I can get metals / plastics if I ever need them in the future, so that's not a worry.

Yeah, I've just contacted them about that receiver, asking when it's back in stock, also that guide you mentioned is in the 'downloads' tab in the product info.

I'll definitely get it ready for next year then, and hope it doesn't get broken :shock:

[sabotageDave]

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Also, some pics of the chassis I salvaged:









You can understand why I want to use a simple 9V, it fits beautifully!

[joey_picus]

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Can I ask what toy you got that from? I like tracked robots

[sabotageDave]

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Can I ask what toy you got that from? I like tracked robots

It was a Tiger tank, made by Micro X Tech, it stopped working a while ago so I figured it was fair game

[sabotageDave]

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The RX and sabretooth are compatible, in fact I use both in my drive-all-day ant, Bulletproof.

Can I ask what transmitter you use?