Under or over weight?

[David Guzman]

Originally Posted by Crebb

Inventor 8 says we're underweight

Our robot is underweight right now but I want to see what the weight is in inventor. How do you see the weight in inventor?

David

[Daniel Brim]

Originally Posted by David Guzman

Our robot is underweight right now but I want to see what the weight is in inventor. How do you see the weight in inventor?

David

Right click the name of the assembly or part that you want to weigh, click on physical, then click update.

-Daniel

[David Guzman]

Originally Posted by DanielBCR

Right click the name of the assembly or part that you want to weigh, click on physical, then click update.

-Daniel

Very nice, now i can confirm that we are underweight from all point of view.

[henryBsick]

People can't put everything on a robot and excpect it to be under 120 lb.
I think a lot of teams' "underweight-ittude" is due to better planning, and experience.
My team is currently underwieght...we are close but still good.
Hoo-ray for plannig

[Jay H 237]

As of right now we're underweight.................but it's not fully assembled and all parts aren't machined yet so that may have something to do with it.

[Drake]

Kinda early to tell. A lot of teams aren't even close to finishing. We currently haven't finished machining all our parts. In the end everyone is going to end up underweight. Nobody can participate if they are overweight. The judges at the events won't pass you on inspection if you are overweight. Or, if you are passed any physical dimension.

[laditek]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

As of right now we're underweight.................but it's not fully assembled and all parts aren't machined yet so that may have something to do with it.

Well 50 1" holes that are 1/8" thick alluminum equals 1 lb
hope that trivia helps

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by laditek

Well 50 1" holes that are 1/8" thick alluminum equals 1 lb
hope that trivia helps

You wish. Actually, that only comes to about half a pound.

Anyway, our frame currently weighs only 11 lbs. But each gearbox (there will be two) weighs approximately 14 lbs including motors. Each joint of the arm weighs about 12-13 lbs including motors. Then we have to add wheels which are 5.5 lbs for all of them, then axles, pillow blocks, sprockets, chains, electronics, pneumatic tanks, the actual pieces of the arm, something to mount the gearboxes on, some lexan for electronics and a battery mount.

I have no idea what we will end up at. I know we will be close, but I don't know if we'll be over or under.

Perhaps we should pile everything (I mean every thing that is going on the robot) in a big box, and head down to the local pet hospital to borrow their scale.

[Bcahn836]

We put the robot on the scale today and put everything we had that is going to go on the robot and we came out under so far. The key words there SO FAR we might not have to drill holes after all, but then again we have 8 days to change that.

[Carlo]

You mean to tell me there's a weight limit this year?!?!?!!?

Kyle, of all people you should have let me in on that.

All joking aside, our MOE v 2k5 is turning out very well. Less green than in past years, we are tipping the scales slightly underweight this year. It's a first in a long time.

[katkana]

*pulls hair out* underweight? I wish... we're currently balanced precariously between two pounds under and about a bazillion pounds over, what with all these 'extra' bits that, in the grand scheme of things, are actually pretty necessary if we don't want our 'bot to end up twisted ten days to sunday. (looks pointedly at the smoking sheet metal carcass that was last year's rookie 'bot). *goes on bended knee* Alas, poor BenzBot, I knew him well...

It also doesn't help that we've already swiss-cheesed the thing to death. Ah well. Official weigh-in is as soon as we can drag the 'bot over to the FedEx offices in two days. *crosses fingers*

Hope y'all are having better luck than we are!

~kat

[Max Lobovsky]

Our weight (over)estimates put us at about 10 pounds under. We don't really have resources to add additional functionality to our design so we will probably just add reinforcements and excessive decorations with this weight.

[Mike Schroeder]

I added a poll to the thread as per Kyle's request

[Rob]

OUr weight will end up being exactly what we designed it to be

Rob

[Squeje250]

Well lets put it this way ...... we are goin to be putting 25 pounds of couter weights on our robot and we will still have 10 pounds left over so we are WAY UNDERWEIGHT!!!!!!!!!!