Has any team or anybody made a 80% - 100% lexan bot?

[Michael R. Lee]

Originally Posted by Andrew Rudolph

SPAM team 180 has mad robots, even the gear boxes were out of lexan i believe. I belive this one below was called lexy.

MY ROOKIE YEAR ROBOT!

Yes that is Sexy Lexy in her KSC glory. At Epcot we added a turtle shell to her chassis for additional protection and were attempting to install a hanging mechanism. Her gearboxes were lexan as well as the following years robot 3-bits (3-bits bad grrrr).

As many has stated it is expensive. Polycarbonate sheet is used as bulletproof glass. We got some donations from a local hurricane shutter manufacturer that year. However, an all lexan bot also sets you apart from the rest as some of us were remembered as the dudes with the clear robot. Before I digress any further, lexan is easy to work with basic machine tools you could get at home depot, loews or any equivalent respectable hardware store. That year if you looked at our pit, that's pretty much what we had at our shop. Belt sander, band saw, couple drill presses...... we've come along way.

When designing, you should also consider not only how will you manufacture it, ease of repair, but what materials. Obviously you don't want a large force extended out on let's say an arm that's just from what you made it out of not to mention whatever you intend to manipulate like this past year a ball.

Oh paint sticking... somehow we managed to get some neon green on lexy when we climbed on top of Swamp Thing somehow (ask Ares.. he was driving ;-)) almost 10 points but we were touching the ramp so only 5.

Thanks for the trip down amnesia lane.