Got Weight?

[Dominicano0519]

(starts talking in infomercial guy's voice) Is you robot overweight, does your team think that they just wasted 6 hard weeks of work. No worries Ill have the perfect solution as soon as i think of one. please help me with any ideas

[Adam Richards]

Originally Posted by Dominicano0519

(starts talking in infomercial guy's voice) Is you robot overweight, does your team think that they just wasted 6 hard weeks of work. No worries Ill have the perfect solution as soon as i think of one. please help me with any ideas

Step 1: Get Drill
Step 2: Insert 1/2"-1" bit into drill
Step 3: Drill Those Speed Holes!

[Clam]

remove unecessary components that would be cool, but would add weight.
use lighter material (ie: aluminum)...
see news updates...

[tammuoisau]

LIGHTNING HOLES, that's a hint

[Tomasz Bania]

Make enough holes so you can use your robot as a CHEESE GRATER at the end of the season!

Tomasz Bania

[pwilczynski]

Originally Posted by Dominicano0519

(starts talking in infomercial guy's voice) Is you robot overweight, does your team think that they just wasted 6 hard weeks of work. No worries Ill have the perfect solution as soon as i think of one. please help me with any ideas

if you're using a shooter with two wheels, you could try cutting out some of the spokes and putting some cardboard over it so that it would be just as aerodynamic but weigh less.

[henryBsick]

Holes help. I think in the past 3 days my team has taken 6-7 pounds off of our robot. Get a couple drills ready, they do heat up when run for a long time.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Take the white space out of your program.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

Take the white space out of your program.

Ha.

But getting back to the speed holes, I'll put in the boilerplate: don't be stupid with the swiss cheesing. Poking a bunch of holes in your hopper that was built around the requirement of having a perfectly smooth bottom may come back to bite you in your bottom.

Just be smart about where you poke holes, and you'll be good.

[adam]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

Take the white space out of your program.

good idea

[ryan_f]

Switch the air in your tires with helium.

[Chriszuma]

drill one-way holes in your air cylinders.

Then refill your brake light fluid.

And change your muffler bearings.

[Rick TYler]

Don't forget to remove all the comments in your code, and scrape the insulation off all the wiring.

[Eldarion]

And drill holes in the RC, radio, and camera.

Seriously, though, it looks like we will be underweight...by 2 pounds!

[Chriszuma]

Use a smaller font in the code.

Also, avoid using entire colons when a semicolon would work just fine.