Finger.im.ohr's antweights

Bot Builds & Designs
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The Conductor:

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Design on thingiverse:

More pictures (GRA forum):
https://forum.roboteers.org/gallery/index.php?album/34-antweight-the-conductor/

Fahrat:
This bot has supercaps instead of a battery, because… reasons. Advantages are few to none, but I had the idea in my mind and wanted to see if it can actually work. In it are two 100F caps in parallel. Their voltage is boosted up to around 7V (I do not remember which voltage I set the booster up for).
And yes, the name is written wrong on purpose.

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More pictures (GRA forum):
https://forum.roboteers.org/gallery/index.php?album/33-antweight-fahrat/

Bumbum der Zerstörer:
Built that one as a christmas present for my brother some years ago.

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More pictures (GRA forum):
https://forum.roboteers.org/gallery/index.php?album/18-antweight-bumbum-der-zerstörer/

Hackfleischhassender Zerhacker:
Have fun trying to pronounce that name correctly English natives :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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More pictures (GRA forum):
https://forum.roboteers.org/gallery/index.php?album/19-antweight-hackfleischhassender-zerhacker/

Entomat (V1 & V2):

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Design on thingiverse:

More pictures (GRA forum):
https://forum.roboteers.org/gallery/index.php?album/17-antweight-entomat/

Kannnix:

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More pictures (GRA forum):
https://forum.roboteers.org/gallery/index.php?album/31-antweight-kannnix/

Zwuckienator & Spiky:
Based on the electronics of an old remote controlled Lego model with an infrared transmitter.
There were two of these guys and they were mainly used on trade fairs to let the vistors drive them all day long. They are/were powered by 3x aaa batteries. The bots are retired by now as the infrared remotes are quite unreliable.

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Arduino Ants:
These are the successors of Zwuckienator and Spiky. Initially built with a 2.4GHz Arduino based transmitter and receiver. That did not work too well, so they currently run on Flysky transmitters instead. Sooner or later I want to get back to the Arduino stuff, at least to give the name some credit again. I recently built two more of them to be prepared for the next trade fair. One in the picture the the previously presented supercap bot which obviously shares the design.

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Design on thingiverse:

More pictures (GRA forum):
https://forum.roboteers.org/gallery/index.php?album/29-arduino-ants/&sortField=showOrder&sortOrder=ASC&pageNo=1

Check out my other designs on thingiverse:

And also check out the German Roboteers’ forum. If you do not speak German, at least the picture gallery is worth a look. :wink:
https://forum.roboteers.org

Best regards from Germany!

finger.im.ohr

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On request and with special permit after review we allow thermal weapons for antweights on certain events in Germany.

Therefore I present my latest creation “Glumanda” (German name of the pokemon “charmander”)

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Hmmm. I seem to have difficulties with uploading pictures.

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This and the picture not uploading adds a whole extra level of suspense and fear! Look forward to seeing what you have built.

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I’ll just leave the link to the picture gallery in our own forum here:

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So finally here is a picture of my flame antweight “Glumanda”.

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In the meantime I also made several modifications to The Conductor.

This is how it looked roughly a year ago and won 2nd place in Luxemburg:

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In december it got pretty beaten up in Chemnitz. That servo actually still works. :face_with_crossed_out_eyes:

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And the following version will be taken to Luxemburg again on the coming weekend:

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I also made a drill version of it:

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The funny propeller fins on the weapon motor of the drill version are protection for the motor as well as a self-righting mechanism. The bot can actually blow itself back on its ‘feet’.

The latest thing I built is a new supercap powered ant, called “Henry Frottey”:

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The name is a tribute to the German comedian Jan Philipp Zymny.

He wrote a book about a detective called “Henry Frottey”, who is always angry about his name sounding like towels or other stuff made from frottee.

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In contrast to the previous supercap bot, this one runs on a single 100 F cap only and I boost up the voltage to just 5 V.

The current version with the strong 1000 rpm N10 motors only lasts for ~2 minutes under load (shoving stuff around and using the lifter). For the upcoming event in Luxembourg this is not an issue as fights will only be 2 minutes. For other future events I have to try different less current-hungry motors.

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I’ve got some Pokemon games in German so the moment I clocked Glumanda I got a big smile on my face. Germans got some of the most memorable Pokemon names in my opinion, like Smettbo.

This is actually a pretty intriguing idea for a self righting mechanism. Got any footage of it working?

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Hehe. The red edition was my very first gameboy game and I started with Glumanda.

Yes, I have a video of the first test. Unfortunately I can only upload pictures here. Any chance you are on the EU combat robot builders discord? I could upload it there.

Otherwise just wait a few days. I guess there will be footage of the Luxembourg event.