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Re: What is the most ghetto thing you've seen on a robot?
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Originally Posted by RadonH0926 View Post
Since I've been on Cyber Blue, the most "ghetto" solution we had was in 2013 when we replaced a floor pickup system with a blue bucket for taking frisbees from from the HP station.
Despite being a somewhat crude fix, you guys (and gals) wrote a nice whitepaper on why you ditched the vending machine coils for a sawed off bucket. Engineering isn't about "what", but "why" and "how".

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Originally Posted by Peyton Yeung View Post
Yeah pretty much all of our questionable "fixes" are belt related. We're getting pretty good at finding out how to connect pulleys without belts.
What is it with 461 and belt incidents... I think the story goes that in 2009 they went with the Archimedes screw because of conveyor belt issues in 2008. At least that's what I heard back then
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