Hey guys,
A bit of a journey into the past before we get into what I’ve been working on recently as I found some old videos of my first ants from 2018
My first real robot, it never got a name and got very little development before the next one, but it’s fun to look back.
Full size receiver, dual 10a red Chinesium ESC’s and some basic N20’s
After the success of pushing butter around, I’d seen a video of witch doctor, and I thought it was really interesting how the design elements were not only decorative but also functional, which led to this
Scorp, my first spinner robot and my first (and only) ant hammer saw to date. I’d really like to resurrect this soon, as I loved the look of it compared to a solid block with some weapons on it. It later got an axe conversion and then was gutted for parts earlier this year.
Sometime before this I made the firestorm model that was available with continuous rotation servos, which led to my trying to design a flipper. I have no real photos of this working, but the geometry was terrible for both flipping and driving as I’d tried to stuff a 37g servo into an already crowded chassis.
That’s all that I can find looking back, based on my photos I didn’t make any other ants between 2018 and 2023 which seems odd, but changing jobs and moving will do that I guess.
