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

OK, this is my team's specialty.

Flashback to 2003:
1) We were trying to figure out how to put the numbers on each side of the robot, so one of our software engineers actually took a popcorn tin, cut out a rectangle, and we put the numbers for mailboxes on it. Turns out, it worked quite well, even though it got torn to shreds. You can even see a snowman peeking through the numbers on the plate.
2) I counted, and at one point we had some 500 zip ties on our robot, holding everything together, including the gearbox and the motors.
3) For our stacking mechanism, which was built at the very last minute, we didn't have enough metal to finish the stacker. So we took some wood and cut it for the top of the stacking frame and the lifter. We then spray-painted the wood silver so that teams wouldn't notice that it was made of wood and thus vulnerable. We managed to fool everyone, even up close, into thinking that the wood was aluminum. That, my friends, is ghettofabulous.
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