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Originally Posted by Jordan2389Diaz
 My team now is five pounds under weight and we still need to add some more parts to our robot. We are thinking of making swiss cheese of our metal in order to lessen the weight of the robot like we did last year when my team got to the competition we were fourteen pounds over weight.
 How many teams are almost over weight - or going to be over weight when you finished your robot?
Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want.-Psalms 23 |
Be very careful when swiss-cheesing your robot.
The Last few years, bumper-to-bumper contact was the only contact that was going to happen.
Not so this year. You will see hard impacts at various angles going over the bumps, robots driving on top of other robots at the bump, robots falling off of the bar ... possibly on top of other robots. This year will be very physical. Expect large forces in directions that we have not seen in many years.
In other words, build it robust. And if you do swiss cheese your robot, understand the weaknesses you create, where you have created them, and how you will avoid forces at those points in those directions.