Interesting material usage?

[lethc]

1806 used fishing poles as canburglars at GKC

[asid61]

We used 1/2" x 1/2" x 1/16" angle to build our ramp.
After making it, I now firmly believe that angle is magic. The ramp weighed very little but could hold around 50-60lbs easily, and it was just a big triangle supported by smaller triangles made of angle.

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

On Carson, I saw a rookie team on my pit tour (don't recall the team number or name) with a lift frame made from an aluminum ladder. Light, strong, square, low effort. Genius!

Found a picture on my camera - It was team 5549, Gryphons.exe from Falls Church, VA.

[BeardyMentor]

Originally Posted by asid61

We used 1/2" x 1/2" x 1/16" angle to build our ramp.
After making it, I now firmly believe that angle is magic. The ramp weighed very little but could hold around 50-60lbs easily, and it was just a big triangle supported by smaller triangles made of angle.

I think you mostly just discovered the power of the truss. Triangles are magic when it comes to making something stronger.

[marshall]

I'm not sure if anyone is using it for FRC yet but graphene seems to be the new miracle material:

http://vorbeck.com/graphene/vor-x

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vor-x-Graphe...p2054897.l4275

[Mschmeh144]

We used Tetrix kit parts on our 2014 bot on some of our axles

[mman1506]

In one of the iterations of or 2014 bot we used the latex ring from the base of a condom as a belt to transmit rotation between a VP and a absolute encoder. It worked reasonably well but since it was used for position PID on arm we didn't want to risk loosing count as we didn't have a method of quickly re zeroing.

[marshall]

Originally Posted by mman1506

In one of the iterations of or 2014 bot we used the latex ring from the base of a condom as a belt to transmit rotation between a VP and a absolute encoder. It worked reasonably well but since it was used for position PID on arm we didn't want to risk loosing count as we didn't have a method of zeroing.

Please tell me that made it onto the BOM... that's awesome.

[mman1506]

Originally Posted by marshall

Please tell me that made it onto the BOM... that's awesome.

We valued it at under a 1$, it was donated by the school guidance department .

[BariSaxGuy]

We used a chain-lift, and to keep the totes aligned properly we used poster tubes.
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...89&oe=55C52C5F