pic: Sir, your robot is illegal

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

Seeing this picture just makes me wish I had a picture from North Star, when I got to tell Al his team's Bill of Materials didn't pass inspection

That's a story that is going to be told around the campfire for many years.

[Thad House]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

That's a story that is going to be told around the campfire for many years.

What exactly happened with this?

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Well,
It turned out that we had made a bunch of changes and had added the new stuff but never removed the old stuff. I think there was also some additions that we were thinking about adding but never did. Our mechanical lead had to go through the list and check everything against what was actually on the robot. I couldn't go near the pit for a while so I wouldn't laugh.

[Jon Stratis]

I especially likes the several hundred dollar pneumatic cylinder from the BoM that never made it past the drawing board. It was good for a laugh for all of us there!

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

I especially likes the several hundred dollar pneumatic cylinder from the BoM that never made it past the drawing board. It was good for a laugh for all of us there!

That one we never did have enough weight to put on. The one that we did add never was used.