Overweight!?

[killerofall]

My robot is going to need lead blocks- we are at 90 pounds and pretty much done. we have now foregone aluminum in our construction so that we have more weight...

[buildmaster5000]

We were at about 80 before we added our latching mechanism hopefully all the other stuff that will ultimately end up on the robot will not put us overweight 10 lbs like last year

[Smoores]

Well, its a heck of a lot better than our rookie year, where we showed up at the competition weighing 150 lbs. This year we are weighing 100 lbs, and its done. So I guess we can actually use those 25 lb lead weights we had.

[Hastypickle]

Our robot is 100 lbs and we are 99% done. We first checked the weight last Monday and we were at 86 lbs then. We were so happy that we were so much under.

[PWelsh]

Because of the height of our robot this year we are having no troubles staying under weight. The other night we put everything we had done and everything we think needed to finish plus a little more and we were well underweight. This is my fifth year in FIRST and for the first time i dont see any problems with our weight.

Phillip Welsh
POWER-Storm 2360

[Chris is me]

~95 pounds with no robot cover. A hanging mechanism would probably bring that to 105 if that gets on. If the bumper frame (and hanging mechanism) are shipped, and 4 CIMS are removed to their COTS base, we're within 15 pounds of witholding. I suspect with strategic lightening, shipping of portions of the robot (replace with a spare in the shop, leave spare home to compete), we could get the robot chassis and ball manipulation down to 65. That's kind of a pipe dream, though... There's only so much you can revert to a non FABRICATED ITEM configuration on a robot.

[FlyingHedgeHog]

We're looking at being 10-15 lbs underweight.

[theprgramerdude]

We're at 112 pounds with the battery (no bumpers), so it's around 98 pounds unloaded. We're going to add some small steel bars and 1/4 inch polycarbonate for a cover of the power distribution board and advertising logos, so unloaded it would come to around 110 pounds.

[dmlawrence]

Originally Posted by PWelsh

Because of the height of our robot this year we are having no troubles staying under weight.

We ended up with a 17" tall robot weighing 128 lb.

As we like to say, the laws of physics don't apply here...

[BenX02]

40lbs under at the moment.

If needed, we're going to ad weights to the bottom to lower our center of gravity though.

[Trent B]

2502 is about 15 lbs under with a few very small parts left to add (we have large things to add still, but we laid them on the bot when we weighed it so they would be included), small parts are basically a few sheet metal things and a sensor or two.

[AcesJames]

176's robot is hovering around 110lbs by our calculation right now. When we get the last few bolts in, and put our plexiglass cover and electronics on today, we'll weigh it all together, and it will *hopefully* be a few pounds under 120. We reached our estimate of 110 by taking all of the robot's pieces we had already made and putting them on our scale. Obviously, not completely accurate, but pretty close for now. Our bumpers, however, are RIGHT at 20lbs. Actually, they might be a few ounces over, but I couldn't tell when I weighed them because our scale isn't digital.

[dodar]

bumpers are supposed to way 15lbs...arent they?

[Jon Stratis]

<R07> G. Each set of BUMPERS (including any fasteners and/or structures that attach them to the ROBOT) must weigh no more than 20 pounds.

A complete set (meaning all the bumpers that are on the robot during a single match - for a typical robot with a kit-bot frame, that would be 4 bumpers, one on each side) can weigh, at most, 20 pounds.

[Michael Ogden]

We are at 86.6 lbs, with a few more trinkets (i.e. the control board) to add, but those don't weigh more than 33.4 lbs (at least I hope not), plus 14 lbs of bumpers. We might actually have to add weight. O_o