18th May 2003

Now I had the wheels and I had the body. The next job was fitting one into the other. I had been thinking a lot about making the wheels wider to give me more traction (This is a point under much discussion in the antweight community) I bought some bevel gears so that I could mount the servos pointing backwards and gear them sideways again.

After a lot of fiddling around I realised by using the gears I had gained about a quarter of an inch width reduction but had added the weight of axles and four gears, and had also lost the advantage of direct drive. I went back to direct drive.

The importance of two inches is that an antweight robot must fit in a four inch cube.