Are you using duct tape?

[Cjmovie]

We've found that duct tape makes a really good conveyor belt (slight redesign on the bottom intake area of our bot). Just put it between two rollers with the sticky side out. Tons of grip!

However, we recently switched to shelf liner based conveyor that we completely covered in duct tape to hold it together. Less slip on the rollers, more on the balls. All in all, works just as well. It has a tendency to move slightly towards the left side, but because it's made so easily we can just cut it and put it back where it needs to go.

It also makes some good "slip" points for the orbit balls. Really cheap way of integrating a clutch-like effect into individual rollers.

[Foster]

Elgin Clock wrote: There is one postage stamp sized piece on the robot covering the dip switches on the cRIO.

May I suggest that you replace it with clear tape. Same concept, but easy to see if the switches are in the right position.

[Mr. Ivey]

We will not be using any out of general principal. We just don't want it on our bot. Also because we found out about it so late that our bot was already packed up and ready to go. Ohh well. I'm going to laugh if a team that isn't ready for a practice match shows up with a ball of wires and duct tape and calls it a prototype...

[ComradeNikolai]

We may have a small piece holding a small piece of PVC in place, but I don't think so. If I have my way, I, the programmer, will grab a drill, a bolt, and a nut and that sucker will be permanently mounted.

I hope really badly that our team does not use any (and I don't think we are, but I can't quite remember) because it does NOT look very professional, and our robot needs all the help it can get. We may end up adding some of the plexiglass holding our electronics together shatters.

[Rex Woodu]

Whe use Duct tape for our test robot. But NEVER on the real robot as it really does look unprofesional and redneck.

[m3ch4num470r]

Most of the "nerds" in our school are part of a duct tape cult. Needless to say, at some points during prototyping, entire designs were held together by duct tape.

We've since replaced almost everything with "real fasteners," but duct tape is still used to hold our foam on our rollers, since we couldn't find anything that worked quite as well.