How much does your robot weigh?

[moogboy]

My team has weighed our robot minus a few very important subsystems, and we are alarmingly close to the weight limit. Naturally our next thought was how much does everyone else's robot weigh now? What are you all doing to remove weight? Thanks!

[DonRotolo]

Holes. Lots and lots of holes. They don't weigh.

[CalTran]

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=98765

You can look through that thread and get some pretty good answers for both pre and post building.

Short answer? Swiss cheese the robot.

[blackrocks0]

If you do swiss cheese it, watch out for how strong the areas will be after swiss cheesing them.
Also, think about getting rid of unnecessary components of your robot (you should think through this a lot).

I can't believe it but we're going to be....under the weight limit this year. Our robot is going to be anywhere from 90-100 pounds. This hasn't happened to 256 EVER! The scary thing is, though, once we're all underweight, we'll add more weight to get to 120 pounds, since that is our weight goal for this year (Gotta balance those bridges, you know.)

[JChavis]

Well, for now, our robot weighs only about 65-75 lbs, and that's not even with our lift and shooter systems yet...We can't totally get a clear exact weight because our force plate isn't big enough to fit our robot.

However, we would like to make this robot as close to the weight limit as possible, compared to our rookie robot last year that weighed only about 98 lbs and costs less than $1100 minus the 2011 KOP parts.

[372 lives on]

roght now our robot weighs 15 pounds.

we have a few more "minor" additions before it is done.

[Seth Mallory]

We have put ours on a treadmill. It should shed those excessive pounds and be in shape to compete.

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by 372 lives on

roght now our robot weighs 15 pounds.

I hope that is withOUT the battery, otherwise you has a slight issue (The battery IS 15lbs...) XD

[JosephC]

Our robot will weigh 119.999999999 lbs roughly

[372 lives on]

Originally Posted by CalTran

I hope that is withOUT the battery, otherwise you has a slight issue (The battery IS 15lbs...) XD

weird our batter doesnt weigh 15 lbs. no fair you get more power !!!!!

[CalTran]

Well, 15ish lbs, give or take

Originally Posted by CalTran

I hope that is withOUT the battery, otherwise you has a slight issue (The battery IS 15lbs...) XD

Our chassis weighs 14 pounds, WITH the battery.

On a more serious note, 15/120 isn't much, but it's a pretty decent amount of the robot weight. It's like a whole apparatus. It seems like the battery can quickly change the center of gravity on a robot depending on where it is. Unfortunately, our center is hollowed out to take balls in, so it looks like we'll either have to find a new place for our battery, or put it on top of our shooter, which probably won't work very well.

[JosephC]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

Our chassis weighs 14 pounds, WITH the battery.

On a more serious note, 15/120 isn't much, but it's a pretty decent amount of the robot weight. It's like a whole apparatus. It seems like the battery can quickly change the center of gravity on a robot depending on where it is. Unfortunately, our center is hollowed out to take balls in, so it looks like we'll either have to find a new place for our battery, or put it on top of our shooter, which probably won't work very well.

Spoilers

Originally Posted by JosephC

Spoilers

(Read in a sarcastic, monotone voice)

Yes. 256 is going to have their battery mounted on the very top of their robot this year. :|