Hey Y’all! It’s ‘bout time I posted something.

When building, what are some weight saving techniques you use?

Feel free to include practical advice and/or more… extreme methods of weight savings.

I’ll start.

Avoid steel.

Here’s some existing things:

Who needs screws when you have zip ties?

Don’t build obese robots that are overcomplicated.

I suffer from this with an all-aluminum 21 pound robot (Using lexan and nylon screws when possible).

Just use less metal

Just don’t build a robot. No robot, no weight.

Don’t do something overcomplicated like a 6 motor to 6 bar lift, its really heavy (help).

fill air tanks whith helium in stead of air. If you breath it your voice will also go high and squeeky.

Me when I build 480 on 3.25", and then discover that it can’t reach top speed when holding a full mogo, come here and see that there’s no practical tips, then decide just to make the team’s operator deal with it and suffer

Build your entire robot out of rubber bands and zip ties, and knot them so they have a c-channel structure.