Best impromptu fixes of 2013

[BrianArneson]

If I remember correctly, 2169 converted their shooter at a regional to be able to shoot from feeder station and they ended up being really good at it.

[theawesome1730]

Friday night we decided we needed to extend to 84 inches or as close as possible and we had less than a pound to do it. The final fix worked beautifully and took 20 minutes from conception to final product. I will post pics or video if any of my team has any.

[SoMe_DuDe904]

Originally Posted by BrianArneson

If I remember correctly, 2169 converted their shooter at a regional to be able to shoot from feeder station and they ended up being really good at it.

Incorrect, 2169 always could shoot from the feeder station.

See their release video for confirmation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT5_RJLG5LQ

After the retooling they saw in Duluth (northern lights) they decided to hide their talents in the Colorado regional, which seemed to work in their favor.

[rwkling1]

Yeah, no, I remember seeing 2169's reveal video, and they were already shooting from the feeder station, they could do it since the beginning when they went to the Northern Lights Regional.

[protoserge]

Problem: No time to take robot apart to get a drill bit in to fix misaligned match-drilled holes?

Soution: Vise Grip. For added safety, we zip tied the vise grip to the robot. The sheet metal didn't budge at all.

[Oblarg]

We were having problems with two frisbees exiting our shooter at once. Fixed it with a small piece of scrap plastic and some duct-tape to ensure that the bottom frisbee nested a bit forward of the rest in the stack. Problem never came back.

Duct-tape in general played a pretty critical role in our robot this year.

[Steven Donow]

A rookie team we mentored had a welded aluminum frame for the "superstructure" of their robot. While visiting them at the Mt. Olive District, the corners of this frame were covered with duct tape. Somehow, the welds broke(I don't know anything really about welding, so I have no idea if this is the proper term), so their solution was to keep the main frame of their robot together with ducttape

[theawesome1730]

Originally Posted by DevenStonow

A rookie team we mentored had a welded aluminum frame for the "superstructure" of their robot. While visiting them at the Mt. Olive District, the corners of this frame were covered with duct tape. Somehow, the welds broke(I don't know anything really about welding, so I have no idea if this is the proper term), so their solution was to keep the main frame of their robot together with ducttape

Broken welds is the correct term. Seems like poor welds or violent drivers lol