Enough buying talk. Let's hear about ghettofab!

Just a few weeks ago for the homecoming parade, we discovered that our OI's portable power source had been made and soldered with the wrong type of plug. So what did we do in our plight far far away from the robotics room? grab the wall adapter we were carrying, cut off the plug, strip the wire with our teeth (we had no tools), twist the wires together, and finish it off with using a little bit of electrical tape stolen form another part of the OI.

Another example of the ghettobot in action would have to be our team (114)'s HALF competition. It's an off season in team competition, where we basically make driving hunks of crackpot engineering. All that the really are is driving plywood boards with some sort of manipulator on top. Here's a few examples from last year.

http://engineer.la.mvla.net/robotics/images.php?view=323030352f48414c464d656469612f3034 48414c462d347468506c616365426f742e676966
http://engineer.la.mvla.net/robotics/images.php?view=323030352f48414c464d656469612f3034 48414c462d337264506c616365426f742e676966
http://engineer.la.mvla.net/robotics/images.php?view=323030352f48414c464d656469612f3034 48414c462d326e64506c616365426f742e676966

Watch the ghettobots spin!