Could anyone possibly tell me aproximatley how much the Atlas Ball weighs when its fully inflated?
All of the technical guys at vexlabs are out for the day so I thought that maybe someone on the forum could help me. I was thinking about buying one and building a robot that could pick it up and transport it.
That’s the picture that gave me the idea. I saw it one day last week while I was looking at the new pictures in the gallery.
It looks like they might have used a 35 x 35 chassis kit from vexlabs which I have. I am not on any team and this isn’t for any competition - I just thought that it migh something fun to try with the larger chassis kit.
But before I bought the ball, I wanted to find out how much it weighs. I was going to throw some parts together and see if it would even work. So that’s what I need need to know - how heavy is the ball.
Besides, my birthday is coming up and my mother has been bugging me for ideas. The Atlas Ball is only $6.99 on theVexlabs site so I figured that would be somthing not too expensive that she could get for me.
Deflated and without the stopper, it is 2 pounds 12.6 ounces.
The mass is 1264 grams.
You will have to make your own guess about the weight of the compressed air the ball will hold when inflated.
FYI - It is a bit hard to get one inflated to the full 30" called for in the H-A-R game specs. If you don’t have a motorized air compressor handy, you might get a bit frustrated.
Also, I don’t think that VexLabs includes even a hand pump; so figure out how you will inflate it before you buy it…
Thanks for all of the information - my brother figures that the ball should weigh around 5lbs or less fully inflated which wouldn’t be too bad.
I was thinking about using an air compressor to inflate the ball, but if it is hard to inflate maybe I should re-think the whole idea. As I said, I just saw that picture in the gallery and thought it maybe fun to try and the ball wasn’t very expensive. But maybe it’s not such a good idea.
Anyone have any opinions - do you think that it would be worth trying?