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What thickness of acrylic to use?

(hopefully this is the right place to post this)

So, I'm in the planning stage of my first project, and I got everything pretty much narrowed down to what I want to use.

The only question that remains for now is:

I want to build my hexapod from acrylic plates, and now I am wondering what thickness to use.
It's pretty tough stuff but still light, I don't want it to be too thin so things will start bending, but I don't want to go overboard and use real thick stuff, so it will be a fat bot.

OddBot Video Competition - "zezinho meets el sapatero"

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here's my video  :-)

must take some sleep now  :-)

 

The robots I used:

Zezinho: http://letsmakerobots.com/node/8257 

el sapatero: http://letsmakerobots.com/node/8628

 

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