pic: Ninja Munkees 2010

[Rion Atkinson]

Originally Posted by svenw

another idea you could try is a vet clinic the usually have large and accurate scales. team 781 has a vet clinic just down the road, and they have kindly let us weigh the robot for a few years now.

That was another of our ideas. I'm glad to see I think like many others. (There is hope in my future! ) But again we ran into the problem of the mentors not wanting to put the robot into a car....

[Rion Atkinson]

I was just informed of this. The first row or so of pictures is the other 4-H team in Oklahoma. Page 2 only has a few of ours. Numbers 9, 10, 11, and 13 to be exact.

[thefro526]

On the topic of scales, On 816 we use this scale (Or one that looks exactly like it): http://interstatedeals.com/royal-exa...5w-p-1352.html.

To make it work for us we took a piece of 3/4" plywood and cut it down to about 38" by 28" and then added a small jig on the bottom so it fit over the scale. All you have to do is zero it out with the piece of plywood on top and you're good to weigh. It's worked really well for us so far. (Since 2007)

I'd estimate that you could replicate our setup for about $75 or so.