1 cubic inch Robot

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Lavapicker

OK, we have a picture of our 1 cm3 robot now too. The nob on the front is actually a weight to help hold the shafts to the ground.

does the wire lead not count as part of the robots dimensions?

[Lavapicker]

The leads in the picture of the one cubic centimeter bot were removed and we ran just power wires directly to the two motors. Its a special wire called mogami wire (36 guage) with no memory - very limp. I have to say though that all the other teams were using this bare copper wire that was at least a 40 guage. I'm not sure where they got it but it looked like fine hair and we would have done much better with it.
For the one cubic inch robot, we also removed the leads and soldered the wires right to the board to make the one cubic inch rule. I expected to see a one-cubic inch box to fit in like the box we have at FIRST but when we arrived at the competition I was surprised to see that we were just on our honor. I thought there were a couple bots that actually exceeded the size limit by at least a half inch but I felt it would be too weird to pull out the ruler and cry that they're over by 5/16.