[EricH]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Best thing to do is design initially with weight in mind...you'll learn that soon enough.

Yep. 330 found out how hard it is to remove a lot of weight back in 1998, when they got to their first event (the Nationals--back then, you didn't have to qualify) and found that they were 26# over. After that, we decided that we didn't want to do that again.

Since then, we've managed weight. We know what gets hit first, and what comes off first. 2007: projections for the ramps and armor put the robot about 5-15# over. Somebody came up with a pretty good idea: the ramps are going to be protection anyway, so why do we have the armor? We wound up with only about 1-2# over, so we took off one ramp to deal with it temporarily. Wound up removing a duplicate motor, but we came in at weight.