Thread: What scales to weight robot?
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Unread 14-09-2004, 23:26
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Re: scales
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Originally Posted by Manoel
This year we only had to take a pound off the robot, despite our somewhat "ghetto" weigh in techniques...


That... is... awesome.

I never thought about using a balance type scale to compare the "new" robot weight to that of an old (hypothetically 130lb) robot.

I'm sure it's not the most tremendously accurate method, but heck... I give it bonus points for ingenuity.

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