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Originally Posted by eedoga
Rule R33 says 30 pounds of custom fabricated items. So we could have withheld the arm of our robot weighing 24 pounds and probably gotten away with our electronics as well. Of the 24 pounds that make up the arm, a bit of that is the 2 motors which are both COTS items and therefore don't count, as well as the linear sliders, pneumatic valves, nuts and bolts, and so on. Really with the exception of some wire, hose and the aluminum frame of the arm, not much counts against withholding.
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Do you really want to bring your arm into the venue as a pile of individual parts in order to get the few unmodified COTS items in without counting their weight? As soon as you connect two parts together, or cut off a bit of a part, or add a hole, it's a FABRICATED ITEM.