[sdcantrell56]

the helix is made from pex water tube. It is HDPE and commonly available at lowes or home depot. Luckily for us they sell it in red and blue for hot and cold water. It is awesome to work with and we designed the brackets so that the tube snaps into them to make assembly super easy and require no fasteners.

For anyone who is curious our bot with the decorations weighs 116lbs and I have a plan to take it down another 3lbs so that we can add the ducted fans and hopefully another super secret device that will help us score.