Team Toad: Ice Chip

This page describes Ice Chip, Kelsey's antweight built for HSRC'02.

(26-Jan-02) “Ice Chip” is a miniature version of Kelsey’s middleweight BattleBot “Ice Cube.” Kelsey built Ice Chip for her seventh grade science fair project, “Tires Choices for a Fighting Robot”. Unlike its larger cousin, which is made completely from steel, the harsh weight constraints of the Ant weight class dictated that Ice Chip be built from aircraft materials: aluminum and titanium. But like Ice Cube, Ice Chip is a powerful pusher, and built to be tough.

• Robot: Ice Chip
• Weight Class: Ant weight.
• Weight: 0.92 pounds
• Physical Specs: 7.0” wide, 7.0” long, 3.0” tall, with 0.25” ground clearance.
• Offensive system: plow blade is 0.038” 6-4 titanium sheet.
• Defensive system: body is a laminate of cellulose and 0.025” aluminum sheeting,.
• Navigation System: Futaba FP-R148DP 8 channel micro receiver operating on 75 MHz, controlled via PCM1024 modulation from an 8UAPS 8 channel radio transmitter.
• Drive System: two dual 3.0” diameter Dave Brown “Lite Flite” foam rubber tires driven by two Futaba S9402 high speed coreless BB servos modified for continuous rotation