So this year our robot was mostly redneck.
Most of the frame (after we used all of the provided aluminum) came from old grandstands.
Our lift system utilizes a worm-gear garage door shaft
The brush system to scoop in the orbitballs came from an old shop broom we had lying around because it was the only thing we could find that had the right ‘softness’ of bristles.
What about you? do you have any silly scrap stories?
My old school showed up in their first year with an all wood robot.
People pointed and laughed at it till it started pushing people all over the place and was placing tetras on the goals with ease and they stopped laughing and got busy having to deal with it.
Part only make up the robot. They don’t make the robot. Ingenuity does that.
i agree with koko about the ingenuity thing and we used chicken wire on our robot and made teh box that the dirver and operator use out of frb(regolith) but the look cool and worked for what we needed
I hope all those parts you used are available from acceptable vendors, so all teams have the opportunity to buy them…???
Anyways, we have a couple two by fours on our robot! right there in the middle of the chassis
Whiteboard for 1618. Originally, we had the writeable side up–but for aesthetics, we cut another piece so the uncoated side was facing up and painted it.
(Two of the three robots I’ve been associated with from Capital Robotics have used the stuff. I honestly don’t know how, when, or why they got that much of it, but it works!)
This past Sunday evening we actually stuck a ~19" piece of steel water pipe in our robot, and we’ll be competing with that. It was the only strong enough metal we could get on a Sunday night. You’ll never see it though. I’d never use it if you could.
Anyways we’re an inner city school so it’s not redneck it’s ghetto. And the most ghetto thing we got on our robot it a hockey stick across the front which is something 1006 does all the time. I don’t know what they call that up in Canada. That’s Hockey Goon of you or something like that, I suppose…
At the competition last year, we had a problem with the cable jumping off the pulley that raised our ball lifter. We were stuck for a bit, then the captain thought of his Sierra Mist bottle on the table. He cut a strip out of that and attached it under the axle for the pulley, and we didn’t have another problem with the cable jumping off again. It’s still on the 'bot, and somehow hasn’t even worn away that much.
Inside the roller(s)?
Only One?
I see 1388 hasn’t spoken up yet so I must do it for them. Thank me later. 
Lucy … I do believe the thread says “this season”.
Either way … you did forget 2005’s Ratchet:
In a thread about redneck materials you guys had to be mentioned. Yes, it went slightly against the thread title, but the ridiculous things you do need to be remembered. 
Edit: If it works, no matter how “redneck” or “ghetto” it is, more power to you.
Last year we snipped the wire out of an old umbrella because it was strong and flexible.
Edit: Whoops, noticed the words “this season.” We haven’t used too many strange parts this year. Though during build we used several “redneck” construction methods, most notably using a cleco tool for awhile because if we pulled it out the cleco would have snapped into a tube, and we would have had to cut the tube to get the cleco out.
We’re using paint rollers. Actually, a LOT of them. In the 20s I believe…
PVC for our entire hopper.
Not my decision.
We were using a quik-grip clamp to hold the battery on for a few weeks. We changed it the day before ship but hey, it worked. We ran our pre-ship scrimmage with it on.
-Vivek
Copper pipe and PVC. Not as much copper pipe as last year, but still a significant amount. There’s a picture of it here somewhere. We’re all about the cheap, all our money goes to the kit, registration, hotels, etc. etc.
Oh yeah and a VHS tape on the control board:)
We chopped the handle off a snow brush and are using it on our turret.
In 2007 I remember needing to put together a camera cage with essentially no materials. We ended up draining a mountain dew bottle and riveting it to chicken wire.
Wood and Lanyard
