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Originally Posted by jnicho15
Everything that touches game pieces
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Same here, but that's one assembly. We built two identical robots, except that the spacing of the holes attaching the grabber assembly was was different between the two. It was not just a bit off, but 3" different, so it threw off a lot of things forward of that point. We removed this assembly (a bit under 10 lb) and transferred it to the practice robot (drilled new holes in the practice 'bot). This way, any tweaking and tuning we do to it between now and competition will go to competition.
Unless we develop a new mechanism to add at competition, we will also include several pounds (~12) of pre-drilled ballasting in our parts allowance, to further lower our CoG. It doesn't seem critical, but we'd rather do it before we find out it's a problem.
Another few pounds of our withholding allowance will be spare sensor assemblies and a turnbuckle cable developed after bagging which improves our strafing capability.