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Originally Posted by Necroterra
As for weight, I can't speak for the team but I'd guess it would be very lightweight, probably even lighter than our laser-cut plywood bot (which was 105 w/ electronics and mechanisms).
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Coming from a close-by team, I cannot speak with certainty of their bot's weight, but their head mentor said at SMR it weighed roughly 117lbs (with everything); In addition my team had bin arms printed out of the stuff, and both arms (which were 100% solid) weighed under a pound
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The key to this material is not just its weight, but rather the complexity and speed at which items can be built. Example being our bin-arm, compared to traditional techniques, printing in the carbon-fiber ABS allowed us to CAD and manufacture a precision part in under a day (without waiting, total time from concept to final product was roughly 3 hours
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