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Re: Enough buying talk. Let's hear about ghettofab!

Our whole robot was ghettofab, but here are some highlights:
  1. 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!)
  2. 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:
  1. KISS sucks.
  2. Zipties are evil.
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