Ant weight wedge battlebot using VEX 393 motors

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This is a 1lb U.S. ant weight wedge bot that uses VEX 393 motors with 2 pieces of 5 hole aluminum plate cut to 5X3. I used the lexan from last years VEX IQ game field to keep from having to buy some. In order to keep this at/below 16 ounces you will need a 2S 450mah or lighter battery and some lite flite or other brand foam wheels. If you remove the circuit board with the ptc's from the motors like I did make sure you use different wires from the motor so you do not get them mixed up with a motor that may get put on a VRC competition robot. I used a FlySky 6 channel receiver with some inexpensive brushed motor controllers and elevon mixing on the transmitter. The robot I printed will compete in March of 2017 so I will follow this up with how it performed. Print Settings Printer: Home Built Core-XY Rafts: No Supports: Yes Infill: 40% Post-Printing How I Designed This Proving the power of Tinkercad I actually designed this using a free Tinkercad account to prove the ability of this simple cloud based CAD program. I obviously did not have the tools I am used to in Fusion 360 or Solidworks, but I could teach a 10-12 year old how to design this part in about 30 minutes.