Give Yourself
a Weapon!
by Zachary Lytle
This is a follow-up article to Give Yourself a Wedgie which appeared in the October
2012 issue of SERVO Magazine. In this article, I will be discussing how to add a servo
weapon to your one pound fighting robot. As a four-time Insect champion at
RoboGames, I have built and seen all kinds of servo driven weapons. I will be showing
you two of the most effective ones: the lifter and the clamp. Both designs have the
same internals and electronics. The only variation is in the assembly. So, I will start by
showing you how to wire a servo into a one pound fighting robot's electronics. Then,
the article will split into the "clamp build" and the "lifter build."
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