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29 Black Death by Kevin Berry
22 SERVO 06.2009
BUILD REP RT
The Intro Ant
● by Kevin M. Berry
After a hiatus in building,
I’m heading back into the
arena. As part of my research,
I’ve kicked off a series of
conversations on the Antweight
forum on Delphi Forums
( http://forums.delphiforums.
com/antweights) about the
current state-of-the-art in
antweight technology. Building
on the Ultimate Ant thread,
I asked the community for
recommendations to incoming
new builders on constructing a
fully competitive, but more
value-based (i.e., cheaper)
machine.
For pumping the forum’s
expertise, I laid down the
following groundrules:
Assuming the following:
limited budget (not zero, just
tight) for components (but value
matters too, not just cost), two
driven wheels, spinner (drum,
disk, horz, vert, doesn’t matter),
any legal radio system, and it’s all
RFL compliant. Don’t worry about
raw materials or manufacturing
unless very specialized.
This post — quite similar to
the previous Ultimate request —
accomplished exactly what I
desired. Three builders (all part of
the Ultimate panel) posted their
lists, along with some advice
from other seasoned veterans.
The results were surprisingly consistent, and really only included a
few — but significant — variations
from the Ultimate list.
Drive Motors
The 16 mm BaneBots series is a good
value among gearmotors.
BaneBots appears to be the
value vendor of choice, both in
forum responses and based on a
