We were 5 pounds over weight last night. but we put our robot on the south beach diet drilling some holes all night. every ounce counts 
we ended up losing a couple extra just to know we were safe incase we needed to add some small other things.
Cindi
i know you guys will all hate us for this but we are 40lbs under:D time to add normal force.
Wisdom.
We too are slightly overwieght but we came up with a better plan, we are going to convince the judge that Dean meant 120 lbs on the moon, so 740 on earth, we will let you know how it works.
I think you’ll find that the legal definition of a pound actually describes a mass, not a force. That’s why spring scales, which measure force, often bear the caption “not legal for trade”. Balance scales and calibrated masses are not affected by gravity.
We are 10 underweight
We’ve redesigned our systems are are estimating to be within 1-2 lbs overweight. Then we get out the step drill. 
Also, the mentors didn’t really plan for weight - no one did. We were just trying to finish the design.
We were 3 pounds over and we’ve been putting cheese holes everywhere we can. We also lost a full pound by removing 3 unused cRIO modules.
1902 finds the word ‘potato’ funny as well.
We’re 25 lbs UNDER weight and we ended up adding 10lb weights to the back of each side.
we ended up modifying our entire ball collection and delivery system, and now the robot weighs 121 pounds lol
upside is the camera now aims our shooter and our harvesting system dosent jam anymore:D
The pound is considered both a measurement of weight, and of mass, therefore, it is slightly ambiguous to the pedantic eye.
However, unless you plan on getting the scale off earth, 1 lb(weight)==1lb(mass)
The scale said 118.9 when it was about ready to go in the crate…I guess we got lucky, because we sure didn’t have a weight budget this year.
We have yet to weigh the robot as a whole, but so far we r about 6 lb under (last time i checked) we still have some stuff to add, therefore, we r looking at hitting weight near perfectly.
make that 3 lb
UPDATE! We lost ~55 pounds and are now 15 pounds under weight! And the bot still works!!
We seem to be about two pounds over, I think we’ll make it.
We’re sitting at 95lbs night before ship…we’re considering ballast at competiton.
116.5! First time we aren’t adding speed holes the night before we ship! In fact it was packed up by 9 pm tonight! No all nighter for 836 this year!
Let the games begin!
Last year, as first year rookies, we were 30 pounds over weight without any special manipulator. We used 2x2 80/20 and our robot was a TANK. We could shuttle at least several people on it back and forth. It was like 2x2 80/20 around the base, bolted with quarter inch (at least) thick plates that had about 20 bolts to each plate on each corner, etc. We had this hunk of metal at the top that could knock the balls down which was little over 20 lbs. We were 20 lb overweight so guess what went, the 20 lb thing that knocked the balls down. That was like 1am on the day of shipping and we hated that night so much that his year we’ve been weighing at least twice a week. We’re just around the weight limit with a decent implementation of picker/shooter.
