Innovative designs

[Bongle]

In 1141's rookie year, we used treads from a junked snowblower. In our second year, we used large tires from a junked snowblower. Both years, I believe our total expenditures on the robot was less than $100. We always scoffed when we heard other teams saying "we only spent like $500 on this". Initially, we were going to use a gearbox from an old snowblower, but it turned out it was damaged, and we ended up using pre-owned chain and sprocket. We never even opened our CAD software (this may have changed since I left, but not likely), preferring to simply write down what parts we needed.

When I was working with 1281, I was always making suggestions like "well I bet we could get that part at the junkyard" whenever we needed a part, just out of habit. Spending money on parts that you can quickly and cheaply find at a junkyard seems so crazy to me.