Last year we quickly realized while we were at NE District Champs that we needed a can burglar... and so starts the tale of the
Jank Shank...
It was an awful piece of 1/2 conduit and some hacksawed brackets with a horribly mounted piston on the side of our robot. It worked with mighty hutzpa! We eventually took it off do to complications with the integrity of the device when we went to St. Louis.
But... when we competed at the offseason event River Rage in NH there was once again a need for the Shank! I was able to borrow and not return (with permission) a piece of square conduit from team 138 and I constructed a new Jank Shank. This monstrosity was held together purely by electrical tape, it was awful. It took be a total of 20 minutes, and the entire time I kept telling people to not expect much, it would only work once. If anyone who was there remembers how this new Shank worked... good. It worked once in a semifinal auto to grab the Great RC painted orange like a Great Pumpkin (Charlie Brown!) and everyone thought it broke accidentally because it was all bent up afterward. It was meant to do that!
And that is the most
janky thing I have ever seen on a robot I built!