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Re: What is the most ghetto thing you've seen on a robot?

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Originally Posted by Scott England View Post
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.
I didn't even think that you could buy lead bricks from Amazon...

Anyways, the most sketch thing we've done is the mod to our AM14U2 kitbot for driver training. We attached two 2x4s as forks with this really interesting contraption for mounting the camera, but you still couldn't see the ball you were trying to pick up. We then proceeded to drive it through an obstacle course made out of chairs and other furniture. The best part was fastening the plywood top to the robot and then trying to frantically drill holes above the RoboRio to plug in the camera. Fun times.

http://imgur.com/a/1vw1P
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