pic: hmmm.

[Alex Cormier]

loading photo ...

[the man]

Its a question mark ?

[Mike Betts]

It's a broken cedilla!

[GaryVoshol]

Somewhere there's a ticking crocodile ...

[Captain banana]

come on guys, you took all the good puns. lamesauce!

[Chuck Glick]

Lemme guess Cormier... is it a hook?

[EricH]

I hope you guys didn't skip school to make that...

Spoiler for For those that didn't get the pun:

"Skip school" = "Play hooky"

[Josh Fox]

*Groan*

Looks like a pretty good hook to me. Hope it hangs in their under load.

/non-hook based pun attempt

[Isaac501]

Holy cow, you could hang 10 robots off that thing. I hope you guys don't have weight problems, because that's seriously overdesigned. Friggen Awesome, but way overdesigned.

[Brian C]

The Riddler strikes again!

[Taylor]

I don't know if I like the right side, or if I prefer the left.

It looks like it's come to a standoff.

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by Isaac501

Friggen Awesome, but way overdesigned.

Maybe it's not designed enough? Good design gets the job done with the minimum material needed.

(the "overengineered" or "overdesigned" thing is a pet peeve of mine)

No question that it's strong enough, though

[Wetzel]

The real question is what comes before the question mark.


Wetzel

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by Isaac501

Holy cow, you could hang 10 robots off that thing. I hope you guys don't have weight problems, because that's seriously overdesigned. Friggen Awesome, but way overdesigned.

I think it may actually be under designed. That's right, under designed.

Do you see a cable attachment point? How about a mounting mechanism? All I can say is, without the rest of the lifting system, this is very questionable.



Buuuuwaaaaahaha.

OK, now that the second image is available, it answers my question.


Ohhhh, I did it again!

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by billbo911

I think it may actually be under designed. That's right, under designed.

Do you see a cable attachment point? How about a mounting mechanism? All I can say is, without the rest of the lifting system, this is very questionable.



Buuuuwaaaaahaha.

Actually, yes you are correct. We made some subtle but drastic changes and it's amazing how well it works now. We added two bolts onto the lexan pulley so the cable would not flop around and it hung very smooth and very fast. Too bad we fixed that friday night, not thursday.

Originally Posted by Joe Johnson

I, for one, love this little enigma. Easy to build in a HS shop class, strong light, gives me a real warm fuzzy feeling when I imagine it holding up a very precious cargo of 150lbs of blood, sweat and tears.

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery... ...I stole the entire idea for 2849's hook once we ran out of weight for our pole climbing arm. You'll see something very like it in Baltimore over the next 3 days...

Awesome! We did manage to hang for all of our last 3 matches. It was a beauty and made us all proud. Do you have any pictures of 2849?