Thread: What is the most ghetto thing you've seen on a robot?
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Re: What is the most ghetto thing you've seen on a robot?
The most (insert non-racist word here) hack I've seen was 1646 in 2008 at Great Lakes regional. They built a ball herding lap runner and a fast one at that... and during eliminations their mechanism broke to the point of requiring removal, and that caused all sorts of weight distribution issues. OK, what to do? Add weight, obviously... but what to add? Obviously they couldn't add extra CIMs or batteries (the latter was more obvious then than in 2014), so they had to go for the next heaviest thing in the pits, tools! Wrenches, a drill press vice, you name it, they added it to the front of the robot to get the weight back. They didn't advance to finals, but it was still funny to look at.
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