pic: laying out the robot

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Originally Posted by waialua359

that honeycomb material looks like that strong, lightweight material that Boeing sells when they want to dump stuff. I saw it or a similar material in Washington and many Electric Car teams use that material as a substitute for fiberglass.

It looks like corrugated cardboard to me... I have some real thick cardboard sitting around in my room (looks similar to that material), and its actually pretty strong stuff. My father and I experimented with putting polyurethane on some, and it made it a good deal stiffer, too; cardboard's performance is nowhere near carbon fibre, fibreglass, Kevlar composites, etc, but it is surprisingly strong given its relative low cost and weight.