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Originally Posted by TubaMorg
I'll start with an example: One team found some flourescent orange snow fence netting to use for their ball hopper (sorry I forget the team number). Functional, lightweight....and ugly! I love it!
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Originally Posted by Greg Marra
That team was 228, GUS. They gave us a section of it at the UTC regional when we were trying to make weight and shedding polycarb left and right. It worked really well for us, and it even matched our polycord! I'm pretty sure we weren't the only team that got our hands on some of their spare fencing. Thanks, 228!
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It's not all that ugly, especially when practically your entire robot is fluorescent orange! I lost count on how many cans or Chevrolet Orange spray paint we went through... I think its somewhere around six or seven full cans.
The snow/construction fencing is really strong and durable and is amazingly lightweight. Here was team 228's robot during the elimination rounds at UTC:
EDIT: I just reread the original post in this thread, and our robot doesn't really qualify for this thread besides the fact that we used the orange fencing.
Much of our robot (except various pieces here and there) was machined on our team's Bridgeport and a lathe.