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Most ghetto dolly ever

I'm sorry, but 422 has to take the award for most ghetto dolly ever. There are no doubts. First of all, it isn't even a solid piece of wood. It's quite literally what two guys on our team found when they first walked into the robotics room. There are two bars of 1x1 plywood about 2 or 3 feet long roughly parallel to each other and 1 or 2 feet apart, and at each end there are two pieces of barstock aluminum connecting them. Mounted underneath the barstock on each of the corners are four pieces of uneven HDPE (I told you, whatever they found on the floor they used...) and beneath that are casters. The casters aren't aligned with the front or the back, and one of them doesn't even touch the floor. There are two hinges bolted to one piece of barstock, to originally serve as the hinges for a handle of some sort. Alas, it was not to be, and the hinges remain without handle. There is a piece of rope tied around the two front casters, for lack of a better place to put it. The whole assembly is so ghetto that we have to off-set the robot on our dolly (so part of it hangs off one side) so that the robot doesn't ride on it's sprockets. The whole assembly is kept in one piece by 10 self-tapping screws.

A picture of our robot on the sad dolly: http://www.firstrobotics.net/02gallery/422-1.jpg

Nobody comes close, I'm afraid. If you're going to Maryland this summer, I'll show you the patented way to sit on the dolly and balance the OI on it as well so that you can try chariot racing (the dolly always pulls to the side, unfortunately... so you're always at an angle to where the robot is going...).

Ian, don't even try to counter the claim to ghettoness

Oh, and Digo: The english translation of susto is approximately "a big shock or surprise".. I tend to define it as that which can make me jump a foot or two in the air
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