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Unread 09-03-2016, 20:54
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Re: What is the most ghetto thing you've seen on a robot?

I'll say as a person of color, I don't allow any of the students on the team I mentor use the term ghetto. I had the discussion and broke down the uses of the term and why it's an issue. I don't use it myself. I see it as offensive, particularly as I came from some not so great environments. As I work on making FIRST and other robotics programs more accessible to other students in my area that aren't all the same, I have to do my part to break some things down.

Now to the actual question..

It would most likely be either the pulleys and pneumatic grippers we built for last year's robot. Had some roughly machined metal that was ill-shaped, poorly cut, not smooth, and not uniform for the cable we were using, along with haphazardly cut stock metal. Actually during a community event while running with the robot I actually nearly got skewered by the thing as the bridge wasn't reset.
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