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Another Brick in the Wall
— Building Rudy
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36 In Front of the Cameras
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26 SERVO 08.2011
BUILD REPORT:
Another Brick in the Wall –
Building Rudy
● by Thomas Kenney
In mid 2009, I built the most recent version of my Ant brick,
Gilbert. Since then, the robot has
won nearly every event it’s
competed in, placing second in
the one odd exception. The
wedge and frame design are well
proven, but I still have the
problem of losing one of the
near-extinct 13 mm 17:1 Maxon
gearmotors every few events.
With all this in mind, at the
beginning of the year I started to
draw up a prospective
replacement bot with a near
identical
frame and
compatible
wedge
mounting
structure. The
main
difference in
design was
switching
drive motors
from the rare
Maxons to a
set of Fingertech Robotics’
prototype ‘Silver Spark’
gearmotors.
FIGURE 1. Champion
Ant wedge, Gilbert.
