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Originally Posted by Cory
We found out we had to shave 30 lbs off our bot last year. It looked like swiss cheese when we were done
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We'd used a bathroom scale to weigh our robot..
That was after we'd drilled a ton of holes in it, too. We thought we were underweight (good thing!) but when we went to regionals and used their scale, we were still a good couple of pounds overweight (baaad!).
We ended up spending the periods between each practice round on the practice day filing the robot like mad, and trying to drill more holes wherever we could. Our area was full of aluminum shavings. It was fun
After some very tedious work, though.. we'd finally gotten it down to EXACTLY 130 lbs. I think we're gonna pay much more attention to the weight factor while designing and building this year than before
