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Re: pic: GUS Team 228 - 2010 Teaser 2

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Originally Posted by s_forbes View Post
Will it have an orange twin like last year's?
Unfortunately we won't have an orange powder coated robot this year for two reasons; 1: we're going to have a 119.9 lb robot for the first time since 2005, and that's without the weight of powder coating; 2: we realized pretty early on that a bright orange frame just didn't look good when used with the mandatory red/blue bumpers. After this realization, we wanted have it anodized black but our time schedule had slipped to the point where anodizing would have taken too much precious assembly and wiring time away from us. Not that the slipped time schedule had anything to do with this being our first time designing a swerve, let alone one which clears the bump with ease.

Instead, we've been either wire brushing or sand blasting nearly every visible aluminum component on the robot. The robot in this photo is the competition robot.
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