Re: Weight Concerns
 

If you don't manage weight from the beginning, weight will manage you at the end. After brainstorming, we set weight budgets for each major subassembly and then continue to refine the estimates as the build process continues.

Re: Weight Concerns
 

Team 213 usually runs into weight when the robot is nearly finished, and we put it on the scale and it is about 135 lbs. We are no better this year, we have not really considered weight as the demon that it is. I don't know if we will be overweight this year, but I am guessing so, seeing as we have plenty of CIM motors and aluminum sheet. Who knows though. Probably another swiss cheese robot. Check out our picture on the image gallery to see our machine. Team 213's machine. Also click on the link below to get to our team site (which is new) to get more detailed info on our team and our season so far (lots of pics).

Re: Weight Concerns
 

With 10 days left we decided we were about 18 lbs over.

I felt bad but when Andy Baker said they were in the same boat I felt better.

Time to get a dose of reality and trim the frame or redesign with less 8020 aluminim tubing.

I think the plan was good but the execution was prototyped but not perfected.

Re: Weight Concerns
 

you wanna hear a scary number...119.5 is the unoffical weight of our bot...+/- 3 lbs.

Re: Weight Concerns
 

we are not even done with the robot and still are a few pounds over weight :ahh:

Re: Weight Concerns
 

we're constantly checking now by going to wach group asking "how much do your stuff weigh?", cause our chassis and harvester makes a pretty good 91.5 lbs :ahh: so yeah that put us all in really high gear to drill holes and our hopper team and launcher team is trying to keep the weight factor in mind, now when we add it all up, I think we're right 120 lbs.