What materials do you most commonly use on your robots?

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Originally Posted by Oblarg

and good riddance to the 80/20, it's a terrible material that breed bad habits and should only be used for prototyping, in my experience

I fully agree with you there. Our past two robots (the first one doesn't count, it was our rookie year) were basically tributes to the company that made 80/20. The robots were almost entirely made out of 80/20 and were barely able to be finished within 6 weeks.

One of my goals for this year was to make a prototype 80/20 robot (to some degree) in 3 weeks, then remake everything better the second time around. I have found that testing the robot for only a day or two without any field components has left our robots with many hidden problems. With a lot of machines and more supervision, it will be a lot easier (hopefully) to make better robots in shorter time.