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Re: Has any team or anybody made a 80% - 100% lexan bot?

Though I have not had the pleasure of seeing one of 71's robots, from the pictures I have seen, I have great respect for their designs. They exhibit the kind of engineering efficiency few other teams have.

I am not entirely opposed to using any particular material, I'm just pointing out commonly misused materials.

Of course, as I have stated in several threads, material choice is more than simply the best performance for your weight or even for your money but the best performance for your money, weight, and time. You may find a piece of PVC that happens to have a very efficient shape and creating a shape out of a better material with the better efficiency would take too much time or money. I'm only concerned with what I would consider blatant errors like an entire robot out of Lexan.
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