We weren’t worried, then we weighed in at 145lbs!!!
Today is weight-loss day. We have a plan that should take 28 pounds out of the frame. Wish us luck!
We weighed on 3 different sets of scales (outs and ones provided at two week 0 events), and all agreed… 113 lbs.
Then, we broke a critical component of the robot and spent probably 15 hours working on a redesign. Time to weigh again… I think the redesign may add a couple of lbs, but shouldn’t take us over weight.
We understand the pain in this thread. The team had been so good with Solidworks keeping a weight chart for the robot arts and thought they had 5 lbs. to spare. We had a parent bring in an industrial scale, thankfully, and poof they realized they forgot to add our clapper assembly as the robot’s weight was at 135. After rebuilding the top of our four bar from 2X1 tubing to 1X1 tubing the robot weighs in around 119.5 with a better COG. We had to take off our fancy 3D printed numbers and second signal light though 
Were somewhere around 78" tall (depending on active configuartion), 42" long and weigh in at like 119.5 lbs. Ya…
We’re at 81.6 lbs, which is way less than I was expecting. We brought in 2 other scales just to confirm.
Just over 110 on our bot. It has everything besides sponsor panels! Its nice not being underweight like last year… (90 lbs) we always lost in pushing wars
Phew! You should hold up in pushing wars this year just fine.
This year, we get to worry about the falling over wars instead.
4901 will be right on the line, but I’m not concerned since we have a few pretty simple outs with our design. I haven’t had to put a robot on a crash diet since 2006, why start again now?
108lbs. Literally 1lb less than the cad. I’m so happy.
That leaves room for more subassemblies… we ahve two robots so we can test.
Got our robot down to 113 lbs. That’s 32 lbs we cut in 1 day!
We weighed our robot on Sunday night and got 128 pounds. We removed some parts that were not mandatory and got it down to 122 pounds. Unfortunately, there were still parts that needed to be added. Some parts were remade using 1/16 inch wall tubing instead of 1/8 inch wall tubing. Today was a long session of “alumi-suction” and we ended up at about 118 pounds. Tomorrow, will be more sessions of alumi-suction to lose more weight so we have margin for adding to our mechanisms.
105 lbs. Close enough to think about weight but not close enough to worry. We’ll be adding a little at our first regional.
Weighed again last night, just about 105, enough room for us to figure out what to use to push the noodles out of our way…
The robot spent the last 3 days out in the warehouse spa under going weight reduction therapy. 119.8 A cylinder swap should keep us just under
We were over but did a lot of weight reduction to get to 115
Last night we drilled 200 1.5 inch holes and removed every possible thing that we could and were down to 119 using pressure pads. Were cutting it way to close.
Our team recently weighed our robot as well. It was ten pounds over; so the past two nights have been spent drilling holes and replacing parts with lighter options. I think we’re still four pounds over, so the robot is going to look like Swiss Cheese.
Yes, my team, 4456, robot, when we weighted it this last Saturday, was 162.5 pounds, 42 and a half pounds overweight. Our robot was suppose to pick up 5 totes at once and drop them all at once with an accordion forklift design, which turn out to be to heavy. Therefore we spent that last couple days on the biggest robot loser mood. Also, sense my team is centered in northwest of the District of Columbia this storm is really slowing us down.
114 lbs according to the bathroom scale + plywood base method. No idea what the error range on the scale is, but needless to say nothing else is going on the bot…