While I was grabbing pics for the SMIDSY thread I was reminded of the other robotic combat I was involved in for a while.
Antweight fighting robots are just like the heavies - except there is a weight limit of 150g and a size limit that it must fit within a 100mm cube.
This puts ants within the reach of anybody so a lot of them are built by younger people, but it also presents a serious engineering challenge to someone who wants to produce a proper fighting robot within the specs rather than a simple cardboard push-bot.
I lost interest when I had taken my designs to their logical conclusion, plus the dotcom crash meant I had some serious career turmoil at the time ( hello datsuncherry!
) but AFAIK there's still a thriving antweight scene.
This is VacAnt, a push-wedge-bot I built with a spinning disc weapon.
Antweight fighting robots are just like the heavies - except there is a weight limit of 150g and a size limit that it must fit within a 100mm cube.
This puts ants within the reach of anybody so a lot of them are built by younger people, but it also presents a serious engineering challenge to someone who wants to produce a proper fighting robot within the specs rather than a simple cardboard push-bot.
I lost interest when I had taken my designs to their logical conclusion, plus the dotcom crash meant I had some serious career turmoil at the time ( hello datsuncherry!
) but AFAIK there's still a thriving antweight scene.This is VacAnt, a push-wedge-bot I built with a spinning disc weapon.
