Thread: Weighing the Robot
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Unread 18-01-2008, 22:58
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Re: Weighing the Robot
Our rookie season we didnt concern ourselves about weight until the last day or so. We knew a person that had a scale used for weighing larger shipments, so we borrowed it. We found out we were about 40 lbs overweight! That night we had three people just going at it with hole saws getting rid of weight. Our robot was almost completely clear that year and the holes were straight, so it really didnt look to bad. We later named it the "Holey Roller". We got to the competition and found that we were JUST over. We took a sawzall to the back of it, which we now call the shotgun hole, or the battle wound. We got it under, but if we would have kept track of weight, we could have avoided all that. Ou next year we did, and were about 20 lbs under. Weight does matter, and sorry taking out white space in the code does not really work.
Joey
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