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Re: Dealing with robotics regrets
My 2007 robot on 1678, decided to go with a 5ft 110lb robot with a huge ramp. Ramp was too big and had a hard time fitting in the end zone, got many penalties. Should have made a 4ft 120lb bot with a steeper ramp incline so we could fit easy in the zone.
It did manage to go from about 8 ft square as a robot to 45 ft square as a mobile ramp. Had to carefully budget the weight for paint on it >_>
The robot was taken apart long ago except for the ramp skeleton which had the urethane hinges rot away from the elements last year and was finally torn apart. Nobody wanted to drill out 3000 pop rivets or cut the urethane apart(tougher than nails I tell you) Made a great support for our old shipping crate to keep it off the ground and getting a bad case of dry rot.
May you rest in pieces Parking Citation/Origami Go-Kart.
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13-08-2015, 02:21
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