I’m trying to make an all-purpose flipper designed to be used as a toy alongside the hexbug toys, with removable panels and an interchangeable flipper so that it can look like Bulldog Breed, Mastiff, Spawn again and Roadblock from Robot Wars, Blip from Battlebots and Pegasus from David of Smeg’s Lego Wars.
The reciever I got for it doesn’t appear to work so I’ve just ordered a new one, but the main problem I have is how do I actually attach the servo to the rest of the robot? It’s got those 2 holes on the side of it but there isnt really anything that is obvious to use to attach it?
By the way, this is my third fully custom robot ever, the first being made mostly from a Weetabix box, and the second is a 6 in 1 push bot designed for the hexbug build-your-own bot systems, both of which work really well, but the servo has really stumped me. I know this is a stupid question but ive just put it on the forum to ask for some advice, not just on the servo but if anyone has any tips please share
Servo mounting can be as simple as drilling some holes in a sheet and using zipties or simply using adhesive pads and sticking it down.
If you wanted something stronger you could use the mounting holes in the servo into some thick plastic or even wood which you can then screw to the robot. A bit of plastic or metal bent into a sort of U shape could be used to hold the whole servo captive.
There’s no real wrong way to do it, basically.
Thanks for the Advice. Do you know if there’s any specific brackets for the servo, like there is for the motors? I’m using the Black metal-geared Servo from the Shop if that helps. If not, then I might just settle for the zip-tie option for now, or maybe the thick bit of plastic.
While I’m here I’ll also do some updates on the Robot. The new receiver arrived and it works just fine, and I’ve screwed in the Switch in-between the 2 motors.
The Plan for the weapon (it will have to be easily interchangeable as it will need at least 4 different designs) is to have the servo attached to the mechanism shown in the diagram, which is a piece of plastic screwed onto the Servo Arm with the circular holes for 2 circular tubes at the bottom of the flipper to slot into, and 2 relatively powerful magnets holding it together. This means that I won’t have to take the robot apart every time I want to turn it into a different design. In my experience magnets alone would it slide too much for it to be effective, so the best thing I could think of was that. My main fears are that it might be too easy to come off, which would mean that a head on collision with a spinner would remove it (too bad), or that it would be so difficult that the magnets or the tubes would come off the flipper instead, meaning I’d have to glue it back together, which would be incredibly annoying. If anyone can think of an alternative way of doing this then I’m most certainly open to suggestions.
