OVERWEIGHT

[COOKIE]

Who all is having a problem with being overweight?

and what are you all doing to fix that problem?

[Wayne Doenges]

I hear Jenny Craig is good. Also Richard Simmons and Tae Bo work

We have the same problem. With everything calculated we are about 10 lbs overweight.
If you are going to drill holes in your robot, consider what Woodie said last year. It takes 300 1/2" holes in 1/8" aluminum to lose 1 pound

Wayne Doenges

[Allie]

so far we are underwieght. but we havent done our finally calcs yet.

[Katie Reynolds]

... Yep. If you're overweight, get out the 1/2" drill bit now!

- Katie

[rocky115k]

Weight weight weight. What we've done is got the important parts: motors, latch, frame, and such set in the robot, or have the real estate saved, then over estimate the weight of those parts. Those left, such as ball handling, pneumatics users and so on have to conform to the weight AND space constraints set for them from the important stuff. Basicall plan ahead, and don't be afraid to cut an unecearry part of the robot when it comes down to it.

2 weeks left almost to the day. Good luck every one!

[team222badbrad]

All you have to do is take the Battery apart and simply hollow it out! JK JK JK JK DO NOT DO THIS!!

Accually get your hacksaws out! and your 1 inch bit hehe

[team222badbrad]

Get your 1+ inch auger lol

[COOKIE]

WE have holes all over the place but we still are overweight.

We were thinking about putting holes in the motors and covering with duct tape to keep the MAGIC SMOKE in. We also put holes all over the polycarb and in all of our sprockets.

[Anton Abaya]

during our rookie year, we were 15lbs overweight (see 419 robot year 2000).

we didnt take the 1/2" drill out. We took the jigsaw out.

-anton

[bigqueue]

Originally posted by COOKIE
Who all is having a problem with being overweight?

and what are you all doing to fix that problem?

Two years ago, when I was working with another school, our robot was 31 lbs overweight at about this time.....talk about a hacko-rama....we took it all apart and wore out a whole mess of drills and hacksaws. We made it by about 1/4 lb in the end.

This year, at this point, our team is about 14 lbs overweight.....and the milling machine is being called into service as I type!

-Quentin

[FotoPlasma]

Originally posted by bigqueue
Two years ago, when I was working with another school, our robot was 31 lbs overweight at about this time.....talk about a hacko-rama....

Last year, our robot was 15lbs. overweight the night before shipping day...
*saw saw saw*
*drill drill drill*

*represses memories even further*

[Elgin Clock]

Originally posted by COOKIE
Who all is having a problem with being overweight?

and what are you all doing to fix that problem?

TAKE THE COOKIE(S) AWAY FROM THE ROBOT!!!

DO YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH FAT IS IN THOSE THINGS!

INSTEAD OF COOKIES, USE KEYS AND KEYWAY SLOTS TO JOIN EVERYTHING TOGETHER!!!
lol

[GregT]

Might i suggest the team 639 method?

http://www.startateam.com/639/photos.php?pageid=1

each 'buck' is worth approx 1 slice of pizza. Of course the market should determine this by itself- depending on peoples willingness to drill holes they might be worth as much as 2 slices and a drink.

I figure you could get by on a smaller battery if your robot simply hooked onto your team-mates until it could get close enough to latch onto your opponent. It could be a blood sucking robot!



In the end dropping components is usually the only way to lose more then 5 pounds... it sucks but sometimes its what has to be done.

Greg

[Wetzel]

Two years ago we put over two thousand holes in our robot. AND a student got bored enought that he counted them all.

[Mike Schroeder]

Our Team (team 25) is known for its weight reduction holes. in 2000 it got to the point that we were filing