How to lose 6 pounds in 8 hours

[Ed Coleman]

I don't know about the robot since we didn't have that problem this year. However I did tell my wife I wanted to lose 20lbs of ugly fat quickly. She told me to cut off my head. Go figure.

[Dan Petrovic]

Yeah. We didn't have that problem this year. It's probably the first time we can actually say that.

[rachal]

This is the first year we didn't have a weight loss problem because we painstakingly did everything in CAD, made sure all the material properties were set, and also designed 10 pounds under.

In 2005 we were about 10 pounds over, we spent the last week filling every square inch of the bot with holes except for the chassis. Our anodized chassis plate was covered in sharpie marks after all the cutting so we doused it in isopropyl alcohol and set it on fire Not as quick as scrubbing it with solvent, but much more fun.

[dbell]

we were about 10 lbs. over this year. we had designed our arm to have an azimuth turntable, but that had to go. we ended up not being able to save enough though so we took off one of our lifters.

[Graham Donaldson]

Originally Posted by rachal

In 2005 we were about 10 pounds over, we spent the last week filling every square inch of the bot with holes except for the chassis. Our anodized chassis plate was covered in sharpie marks after all the cutting so we doused it in isopropyl alcohol and set it on fire Not as quick as scrubbing it with solvent, but much more fun.

Yes, much much MUCH () more fun!

I remember, though I wasn't on the team, our 2005 bot was swiss-cheesed like crazy, as was the lexan wall on our '06 bot (5-ft long board of lexan= HEAVY. 5-ft long board of swiss-cheesed lexan: LIGHT). We did better on our '07 bot, but we were still 1-2 lbs. over, so we swiss cheesed our arm stuff and that was that.

[Sharkbyte]

This year we weighed in at 119.9 of 120.

Last year (rookie year) we made our electrical panel out of two sheets of 3/8 plexiglass, which was eventually swiss-cheesed beyond recognition. This year we made it out of 1/16 fiber composite (grade GR-10/FR-4 Garolite).

P.S. Garolite is amazing stuff.

[GBIT]

Originally Posted by InfernoX14

Yeah. We didn't have that problem this year. It's probably the first time we can actually say that.

Same want for us we were 8 lbs underweight at GSR so we threw the kit compressor on just for the weight.

BTW Great job At the bolermaker reagional.I heard the story and that is too bad about the other robots in the semis. but great job getting as far as you did!!!!