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

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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
For a non-FRC event a few years back, my team needed anti-dust shields for our drive motors (a quartet of 775s, in this case). I think they opted for the Mountain Dew cans rather than some others that might have been available... And they were covered with tape or something like that. The rest of the electronics were in more professional boxes.
This year at Dalton the RI (Hi Brandon) stated that the robot signal light was too low and could not be seen from all angles.
The students fix: Mount a Coca-Cola can on the robot and mount the Robot signal light on top of it.
Was it a kludge? Absolutely.
Did it work? Yes
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