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Re: Weighing the Robot
In 2006 we used four old bathroom scales (one in each corner) and we were off by about 20lbs (thought we were ~5lbs under, and really were 15lbs over). Last year, we used a large scale a parent had, stuck a sheet of plywood on it, zeroed it, and then placed our robot on it. We thought we were tenish under and really were five under. I think part of the issue in 2006 was that we used freshmen to zero our scales (I'm not kidding, we had freshmen who new their current weights very accurately [from sports] and used them to zero our scales), and since the human body fluctuates so much (as any wrestler can tell you), our zeros were all kind of iffy.
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