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Originally posted by The Lucas
We made a custom pit with a drill press, vise, programmed LED Board and string of green lights that say "GO MOE". Our Pit Crew rebuilt a completly destroyed wing (very complex and huge) in less than 15 mins (I'm not taking any credit for that I was only a tool runner).
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we were fortunate to have all the bosch for our pit donated to us (if we hadn't, we wouldn't have such a swanky pit). another thing that you didn't mention was that that pit was TOTALLY designed and built by students. on our robot, most everything is machined by high-schoolers (with the exception of using the bandsaw, which is huge and scary and we're not allowed to use cause dupont doesn't want to find any loose fingers).
Also, we had that wing back together in less than 10 minutes, thank you very much, also taking into consideration that we switched from 1x2 angle with lightning holes to 1x2 channel without (for all those who think we had a weight problem, we took off a piece that weighed 8 pounds so that we could strengthen our wings). while this change doesn't sound like much, we didn't have any of the pieces cut so we had to start from a 15 foot piece of metal and make a wing out of it.
we are also a team made up of people from eight different high-schools and one homeschooled student. this means our meeting schedule is completely after school. our meeting schedule can therefore not be told us over the morning announcements, but rather has to be communicated through the use of our website.
we're probably the only team that you can guarantee not to miss thanks to our overabundance of green, so keep your eye open, we'll be at nationals in full force.
Simon