Most reneck materials used this season

[ComradeNikolai]

PVC for our entire hopper.

Not my decision.

[vivek16]

We were using a quik-grip clamp to hold the battery on for a few weeks. We changed it the day before ship but hey, it worked. We ran our pre-ship scrimmage with it on.

-Vivek

[Booksy]

Copper pipe and PVC. Not as much copper pipe as last year, but still a significant amount. There's a picture of it here somewhere. We're all about the cheap, all our money goes to the kit, registration, hotels, etc. etc.

Oh yeah and a VHS tape on the control board

[commodoredl]

We chopped the handle off a snow brush and are using it on our turret.
In 2007 I remember needing to put together a camera cage with essentially no materials. We ended up draining a mountain dew bottle and riveting it to chicken wire.

[GillSt.Bernards]

Wood and Lanyard

[Alex_2487]

during the long island reginoal we had a promblem with our collection system where the balls with fly our the robot and not land i our storage bin. we spend two days doing all of this complex ways top slove this issue and the last thing we tried was just putting a piece of carboard up and that worked way better then anything esle.

[Tazlikesrobots]

Originally Posted by ComradeNikolai

PVC for our entire hopper.

Not my decision.

Ditto! We used it because it was lightweight, flexible and CHEAP!

[Billfred]

One more to contribute: Gaffer's tape. Lots and lots of gaffer's tape. (We used up most of a roll on The Blackout.)

[Abra Cadabra IV]

Our conveyor belt this year was built mostly out of canvas, styrofoam, and mountain bike tires and was stitched together with dental floss. Which is an upgrade from our prototype belt, which was literally stapled together.

Also, our ball-dumping mechanism was literally a string. (I'll post a picture if I can find one; our bot hasn't been shipped back yet so I can't take one.)

[smurfgirl]

I don't think this year's robot has anything particularly "redneck" on it... but last year, our gripper was made out of driveway reflectors. And of course, the rookie robot in '03 was primarily plywood, so it doesn't look as high quality as later years. It no longer exists, though.

[GillSt.Bernards]

wood and lanyard, hotglue and hope, zipties and zen

[DonRotolo]

A team I saw at Palmetto used almost an entire grocery shopping cart as their robot.

[Ed Sparks]

Well being from Alabama....................

We used to put our robot up on cinder blocks (redneck jackstands) in the pit.

But now we "transport" our robot with our space shuttle cart.

[GBilletdeaux930]

Our '07 bot used a paint brush as a chain tensioner. And a stress ball cut in half acting like a spring.

[Jared Russell]

Our spiral hopper's center shaft is made up of hairbrushes we found at Walgreens.

And the turret (driven by a friction wheel) is lined with weather stripping to improve the grip.