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Re: 2014 FRC's Biggest Loser

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Originally Posted by droswell View Post
We learned a valuable lesson about being 2" under frame size and ALWAYS weight your bot _before_ showing up to a regional.
Our current weighing method is to take two students, weigh them on a pair of bathroom scales, then weigh them while they are both holding the robot. Subtract out the student weights and you get the answer +/- 1 lb. If you then rotate the robot 90 degrees and repeat, you could actually figure out the location of the center of gravity of the robot in the horizontal plane. I'm not a fan of turning the robot on its side to get the vertical axis of the CG...
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