our robot is fat
i'm thinking south beach, or maybe slim-fast, 24 hour hollywood diet, perhaps the grapefruit or juicing diet, atkins, low-carb, low-fat, low-calorie, low sugar diet?
think light thoughts
think helium
think how we can lose 20 pounds
we'll make a fortune, "lose 20 pounds in under a week!"
for referance, 20 pounds is 2 batteries.
what could we cut holes in? what can we remove? what can we do without?
sleep on it, keep it in the back of your mind, and tomorrow we'll get something done.
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ARRRGGGGGGH. Did I not, really did I *not* suggest being cognizant of your weight????
You can't have everything. ARRRRRRGGGGHGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH.
And I can tell you right off the bat that you are not going to get rid of 20 lbs by drilling holes all over the place.
Unless Jimmy goes and welds together a brand new lightweight aluminum frame for you for the launchers, you're going to have to start JUNKING features. You have tried to do TOO MUCH.
- Get rid of a launcher motor. That's 4 lbs.
- Rebuild your transmission to be less powerful. That's two CIM motors gone - another 6 lbs.
- Turn you robot back to 4 wheel drive. You remove the weight of two wheels and their sprockets. Another 2 lbs.
- Toss the turret. You can turn only with your chassis. That's another 5 lbs.
I'm sorry if I convey the tone that I am frustrated, angry and unhappy. I do a very bad job of hiding my emotions. I'm sorry if I look like I'm always upset these days and not having fun, because I'm not.
Yes, and in five days, yes, we'll just, yes, build the dang robot out of TITANIUM.
Need to make trip to Tap Plastics. I agree with you Ed on redoing the hopper with a lower thickness sheet.
We can get rid of Chester (the ABS piece) certainly. That was my first thought before Jimmy went and actually set up the offset turret Tuesday night.
The 80-20 frame for the launchers - was it not on LAST saturday when I said, let's rebuilt it now that we know where everything goes??
The mini-bike motors are REALLY heavy. REALLY HEAVY. Like 4-5 lbs each. I know because I bought one and had to extra pay for it in shipping. We are using 2 mini-bike and 4 CIM motor right now. Reduce to 4 CIM motors. We can run the chassis and launcher without.
Dang it, why do I feel like Cassandra - I can see things coming but no one ever listens to my 'suggestions' until everything starts coming true.
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