Servo - August 2012

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BUILD REPORT:

Siafu: An Army of Ants – Part 3

● by Pete Smith

In Part 2 of this series, I completed the design process for my new Antweight drum bot. In this part, I will show how the parts were manufactured, provide a list of the other parts used, and how they went together to make a drivable chassis.

The various body panels were to be water cut. I created a dxf file of each part (Figure 1). Remember to remove any features from the model that will not be included in the cut; in my part, that was the holes for mounting the top and bottom panel. I added a 1" square to the drawing so that the manufacturer would know the correct dimensions of the part.