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Thursday, May 28, 2009

antweight drum bot



My design is done for my antweight. I don't have a name yet... but it's very cool. The frame is one piece of aluminum (7075-T6 or just 6061... it depends on what I can get my hands on). The drum is schedule 40 one inch steel pipe. The weapon motor is a feigao 1308430S brushless inrunner with a thunderbird-18. The drive motors are robot marketplace's 56:1 micro gearmotors using Fingertech's TinyESCs (w/BEC). The battery is a 2S lipo pack (800 mAh, 8C discharge). It's amazing how everything fits. I ordered the feigao motor and thunderbird-18 ESC already. My expenditures are looking like they'll be about $350. I'm so excited to build this!

(for more details about my design, my post on the battlebots forum goes more in depth)

-Dan

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  2. Excellent robot, you could send me the design please..

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