pic: 1318 the I.R.S's 2009 robot
 

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There are two major flaws: it looks too normal, and it's not purple.

(Nice robot! I look forward to seeing you all at Seattle.)

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As part of our withholding allowance, we're planning on making some new rollers that replace the multicolored pool noodles (whatever we had around) with purple pool noodles. Painting the roof purple on Thursday has been discussed as well. ;)

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how much does this weigh?

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120 lbs. We had to cancel plans for a convertible top for HP loading because of weight concerns (at one point we were 18 lbs over), but we got there eventually.

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i hope u guys have a lot of extra medical tubing...we have a conveyor belt with 4 bands of that and have had some problems....you guys have a lot of medical tubing....good luck

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Interesting. What sorts of problems have you run into with that? Ours runs at relatively low tension...

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well not really much of a problem but one of them came apart a couple times so right before we put it in the crate we threw some glue on it....how did u guys hold them together??

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itty bitty zip ties

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The other cool feature is all the recycled materials on the bot. All the polycarbonate used to be window protectors recovered from a school building demolition. The 1/4" aluminum was surplus aircraft material.