Netsplit -- 150g Combat Robot (Fairyweight/UK Antweight)

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Netsplit is a 150g combat robot in the style of Tombstone. It's the first robot I've designed or built, taking many cues from the other robots available on Thingiverse. It was designed entirely in Tinkercad. Hopefully once events pick back up I'll be able to fight it and see how it does. Update, I took it to Smashbotz 2021, it won lol: https://blog.astandke.com/2021/10/20/smashbotz-2021-event-recap/ You'll need to print: 1x chassis 1x lid 2x motormounts 1x helper (optional, but prevents getting stuck on its back) 1x bar I've included a couple 3d printable options for bars, plus dxf files for laser cutting from 3mm AR500 (make sure you pick MM for units!). If you get a steel weapon bar you'll need the weapon retention button. Team Monsoon also has a selection of [beautiful weapons](https://monsoonrobotics.co.uk/collections/antweight-robot-parts), and the 68mm bars will fit perfectly on this bot both in size and weight. You can also cut a steel ruler using one of the 3d printed bars as a template, which is incredibly destructive and very cheap. You'll also need the following hardware: 4x self tapping m3 for the lid 6x self tapping m2 for the motor mounts and switch 4x or more m2 machine screws (my motor came with plenty) 1x zip tie plenty of heat shrink, wire, connectors appropriate to your battery, etc 2x wheels with a 33m diameter or greater that fit on 3mm D shafts -- pololu has good ones but you can get 5x as many from aliexpress if you're willing to wait, I've also tried [these](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3275522) to middling success For the electronics, I'm going to avoid linking anything since links for robot parts seem especially prone to rot. Everything was sourced from Amazon, ebay, or aliexpress, but you'll have to do some hunting. 1x BE1806 2300KV as weapon motor -- don't pay more than $15 or so for this, I see a lot of very expensive listings for some reason 1x 12A 2s Brushless ESC 2x 500-700rpm n20 gear motor with ESC -- these are hard to find and expensive, bare motors and a 1.8a 2s dual ESC would be more maintainable long term 1x small 2s battery -- the Galaxy 120mAh battery will run the bot up and down my hallway with the weapon at 50% for about 9 minutes before dropping below 7v, but there is room for the easier to find 300mAh batteries 1x fs2a 4 channel receiver -- the i6 radio seems fairly standard and this is the smallest (and cheapest) available receiver for it Every wire you get is gonna need to be shortened and it's a good idea to eliminate as many connectors as you can. Once you've done all that it should fit in no problem, I have plenty of room even with a 300mAh battery. Since this is my first robot I ended up buying almost every part a couple times to come up with the right combination of thing. The exact parts that are on the robot as I type this cost me $80, but I've spent about $200 on the hobby so far. Not bad for many evenings of entertainment, and I have enough components for a 2nd bot to battle my wife with.

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