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Re: What is the most ghetto thing you've seen on a robot?
Back on the topic of "least professionally engineered solution deployed on a robot"
a literal lead brick from the small parts catalog, 1997, roughly hewn with a hack saw to get the total robot weight to the exact maximum. You can still find the basic item at small parts (since they were purchased by amazon)
http://www.amazon.com/Small-Parts-Le.../dp/B003SLEVSA
on FRC Team # 122, used to counterbalance a long arm.
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