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

Our 2003 rookie year still takes em all.....

http://www.rockwoodroboticsteam1098....t%2003%201.jpg

Plexiglass base, and practically everything else wood, with chicken wire protecting our "guts". We also quickly noticed a problem with our drivetrain and controls, since it was chaindrive, and we had a rather simple control system that consited of really only "on or off", so when we would go forward or reverse, the bot would jerk around a lot and almost tip over on several occasions. Our solution? We took a 1/2" piece of sheet metal, bent it into a loop shape, and bolted it onto the bottom of our bot. The result? Never tipped over except once when it ran up and onto another robot, it would constantly be bucking around and made for quite a celebratory dance

I distinctly remeber several teams asking us if we had gyroscopes on our bot.....

Our 2004 bot was rather "ghetto" as well.... I think the pic is self-explanitory...

http://www.rockwoodroboticsteam1098....s/Team1098.JPG

However, despite our incredible ghettoness on our 2003 rookie bot, we got 1st in qualifying and if I remeber correctly, got to the semi-finals of the St. Louis regional..... But I attributed that to luck
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