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26 SERVO 05.2011
BUILD REPORT
Kobalos – Antweight Wedge/Rammer
● by Mike Jeffries
Kobalos is a miniaturization of my 12 lb robot, Apollyon. The
basic idea was to build something
that would be as close to
indestructible as possible. At the
time of designing Kobalos, it had
been almost five years since I had
built my last 1 lb robot.
The first step in the design
process was to figure out what
the modern components of
choice were. After some
investigation, I settled upon
Finger Tech Gold Spark motors at
a 20:1 ratio for drive and paired
them with the Finger Tech
TinyESCs. One 250 mAh Lipoly
pack later and the majority of the
new guts were figured out.
Render of Kobalos done in
Solidworks prior to any parts
being made.
