Our whole robot was ghettofab, but here are some highlights:
- Robot couldn't get up the second step, so we did the calculations and realized our arm wouldn't reach it. Everyone was thinking, "if only we could find a little hook-like object..." about a day before ship date we got an old theatre cane (the kind used to pull bad acts off stage) that we used on stagecrew. We drilled a hole in it and put the van door motor's shaft through it, and in turn bolted the van-door motor to the arm of our robot. The end result was a cane that could whip around and grab on to the bar (which it did!)
- We didn't have front wheels, just some ghetto plexiglass "skids." In order to get up the steps we put a bunch of rollerblade wheels on the front of the bot. This worked suprisingly well.
Next year we have two new rules:
- KISS sucks.
- Zipties are evil.