Adventures in Science: Plastic Ant Combat Bot Build

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Let’s combine everything together and make a real, working combat bot! In this episode, we 3D print a wedge bot chassis, solder up the electronics, and program the onboard Arduino for “arcade drive.” By the end, we have a bot that’s ready to compete!

[@ipodmaurits]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing looks pretty cool and fun to make :)

[@Reach3DPrinters]

"Why build one, when you can have two, twice the price?... Wanna take a ride?" -Contact, S.R. Hadden

[@wilgarcia1]

lol placing a switch on the bots would make it a nice target for combat =)

[@ShawnHymel]

Very true, and I usually don't see combat bots with an external switch for this reason :)

[@teamscrewup1809]

If its on the bottom though. Its pretty hard to get

[@Reach3DPrinters]

From what I've seen, switches are recessed far in body, so you have to use a thin solid tool to flip switch.

[@johnmccormick2883]

Very nice!
Waiting for the bloopers at the end tho ...

[@ShawnHymel]

There really weren't any this time, as most of the video was voice-overs.

[@sknt]

at the beginning i thought the purpose of this robot is fighting ants lol

[@ShawnHymel]

Six-legged combat bots would be most amusing. :) But yeah, "plastic ants" refers to the class of combat robot, being a play on the "antweight" name.

[@TheCommo81]

can you make a video please on how to connect your RC receiver to arduino uno and activate a relay on digital output such as this relay: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BS6PCR6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and please show what you are writing in the arduino code?