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1806 used fishing poles as canburglars at GKC

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We used 1/2" x 1/2" x 1/16" angle to build our ramp.
After making it, I now firmly believe that angle is magic. The ramp weighed very little but could hold around 50-60lbs easily, and it was just a big triangle supported by smaller triangles made of angle.

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Found a picture on my camera - It was team 5549, Gryphons.exe from Falls Church, VA.

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I think you mostly just discovered the power of the truss. Triangles are magic when it comes to making something stronger.

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I'm not sure if anyone is using it for FRC yet but graphene seems to be the new miracle material:

http://vorbeck.com/graphene/vor-x

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vor-x-Graphe...p2054897.l4275

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We used Tetrix kit parts on our 2014 bot on some of our axles

In one of the iterations of or 2014 bot we used the latex ring from the base of a condom as a belt to transmit rotation between a VP and a absolute encoder. It worked reasonably well but since it was used for position PID on arm we didn't want to risk loosing count as we didn't have a method of quickly re zeroing.

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Please tell me that made it onto the BOM... that's awesome.

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We valued it at under a 1$, it was donated by the school guidance department :D.

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We used a chain-lift, and to keep the totes aligned properly we used poster tubes.
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...89&oe=55C52C5F