Thought I’d try some TPU and PLA-ST and actually finish an ant for one of our events for once.
Before the event:
After he was paste.
After he was paste.
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After paste: (lost all tyres, weapon mech ripped off, but servo and all 4 drive motors still work!)
Also featherweight for scale!
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look at this little lad, he is just vibing.
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Never Speak to me or my Grandson ever again.
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What a cute wee crab lad! Love it.
Do wonder if having your wheels exposed at the front was perhaps asking for your tires to be sniped tho? 
Could you extend the wheel guards forwards and round to cover the front and act as feeder wedglets to get people up onto the lifter maybe?
Great wee build regardless though! - love seeing robots span multiple weight classes
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Yeee, it’s good shout.
I was rushing out the cad but original plan was front wej off the wheel guards with some forks off it to stabilise the lifts too, lacking either meant both floppy lifts and a lot of abuse from a v scary horizontal
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Hi Joe,
Great build,
how heavy is this? have you tried putting a gun on it? Maybe a taser would be a good idea!
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This guy. I like his suggestions.
I always like seeing the big crab/little crab stacks, going back to the ant/beetle/fev Crabsolutely Clawfuls.
shout, I need to stack all 3 grab crabs if they’re ever all in one piece at the same time.
made some ants for GROCS this weekend both with the aim of getting some brushless gearboxes in ants!
Left: 
Wallop Scallop - Cattywampus inspired grab & deathroll tail on 16mm brushless gearbox
Right: 
Fling Prawn - 22mm brushless flipper
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yes more brushless antweight mechanism! loving them, the 22mm sounds quite crazy!
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How well does the brushless and gear box flip?
I have seen a few popping up, but they never seem to go beyond a big servo level performance wise?
It was too fast to be honest, needed more reduction to work well, but it did flip things. Servos are so power dense at ant it’s definitely the much better move!
I think I’m in love with the pins for eyes!
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That ha been my mental thought - servos are pretty much optimised for that role anyway. But it would still be nice to get a good flip at ant level