Thread: Interesting material usage?
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Unread 14-04-2014, 23:06
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Re: Interesting material usage?
Not really boundary-pushing or anything, but perhaps interesting:
  • 80/20 and C-channel get a bad rep for being really heavy, but our robot is made almost exclusively of them and is about 87 lbs this year
  • We have duct tape, wood, zip ties, and sliced pool noodle (not in bumpers) in important, visible, and structural applications. Finalist at TC district, and qualified for CMP!
  • These stars from Andymark; is anyone else using them? Great for the intake.

If we want to include some of the past, a plastic broom handle became part of our 2010? robot.

EDIT: The post after about the wrench reminded me that we needed a spacer at Escanaba to help our shooter: we used a sharpie. It was replaced by the wood mentioned above for TC.
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