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weight limit

Posted by Ken Leung at 2/15/2001 1:37 PM EST


Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School.


In Reply to: "The Slim Fast Robot"
Posted by Elgin C on 2/15/2001 1:18 PM EST:



: So How many Teams out there are going to need to put their robot on a serious diet??? 130 lbs huh?? Who came up with that number???? But I guess if the nuber were higher (like 200 lbs) we would still have teams that needed a diet!!!

You are right... As soon as FIRST raise the weight limit of the robot, teams will quickly take advantage of that and get their hands on heavier materials. No matter how much they don't want to get near the limit, they will always try to create as perfect of a robot as possible, and that include putting more stuff in it, packing more and more little devices that will give the robot “the edge” here and there.

Even when my team are trying to build a really light simple robot, we are still pulling close to 130 lbs this year, without even knowing where it come from. We were trying to have a simple design, and oops... suddenly we are weighting 108 lbs or so... We can't even imagine building a "complex" robot.

So, this is going to happen over and over again. Better get the hand drills out and start drilling. Maybe in the additional hardware list they should include some sort of hot air balloon so that the robot can seems lighter. Well, at least they throw in the light in these two years of competition.



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