What's your material

[Odlaw]

I was wondering what materials your robots are going to be made out of. Steel, aluminum, lexan, composites, etc.

[Kyle]

Some of all three, but you forgot some of the other major possibilities wishes and dreams. Wishes and dreams can hold a robot together just as well as nuts and bolts.

[Ali Ahmed]

Our robot is about 90% aluminum. The gears are of course made of steel and there will probably be some Lexan for our electronics board.

[Bcahn836]

Lots of different aluminum, angle, 80/20, plate, and even some kit metal.
the other stuff will be lexan for electronics and pnuematics, and whatever the wheels are made of.

[Denman]

1/4 inch steel tubing (with thin wall ) all the way man

[Pat Fairbank]

Mostly out of 28mm aluminum extrusion - deanodized and reanodized, of course! Also some 1" square aluminum tubing (1/8" wall) and a bit of lexan here and there.

[ngreen]

aluminum, steel, lexan, kitbot, skyway wheel material, polyethylene, unistrut....that's all so far...maybe wood too

[Alex Cormier]

we have a aluminum, lexan, steel, rubber and so on...

[Stephen.Yanczura]

"I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay.
I sleep all night. I work all day

I cut down trees. I skip and jump.
I like to press wild flowers.
I put on women's clothing
And hang around in bars"

5 years running..... .500" 9ply baltic birch. Thats whats up Elgin.

[Matt D]

our robot is mostly aluminum. our electronics board is made of wood.

[Ianworld]

aluminum(the kitbot chassis) and lexan mostly. The only steel you'll find is where we have to use it. And systemetric didn't you guys learn from last year, aluminum is your friend not steel

[dubious elise]

steel rocks my socks off.
but we do have a bit of aluminum for the gearboxes and electronics board and such.

[Denman]

Originally Posted by Ianworld

aluminum(the kitbot chassis) and lexan mostly. The only steel you'll find is where we have to use it. And systemetric didn't you guys learn from last year, aluminum is your friend not steel

oh we do learn! Last year we kinda didn't order the steel on time , and ended up using that horrid thick stuff with twice the size of our standard material!
This year, steel is back , but with our standard size ordered well before the competition. Steel > Aluminium(The proper English spelling ), you can't weld ALU easily, we have little equipment here .... steel is nice, stronger than ALU, and easier to weld, and has the only slight disadvantage of weight (ok, the density is about 3 to 4 times more for steel ...) but being so strong, we don't need much of it
[conclusion]Steel > Aluminium[/conclusion]