Are You EPICALLY overweight?

[Gary Dillard]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

I'm epically overweight but it's so far so good on the robot.
More will be revealed on Monday, I suppose.

I'm not epically overweight but I could always stand to lose a few.

We rolled up a slightly conservative weight budget on day 2 and added up to about 118, so I figured we were OK. We weighed yesterday fully loaded at 107.3 so we've got some margin to beef up a couple of gearbox and sprocket components, as well as shift CG a little.

<edit> Oh wait, that included the trailer hitch, which is excluded from the 120# limit. I guess we have a little more margin.

I've always wanted, if I had an underweight robot (this is only the second time in 12 years I've been there), to mount a toolkit somewhere on the robot with allen wrenches, combination wrenches, needle nose pliers, diagonal cutters, etc. so I don't have to hunt for them. Maybe we'll go there.