Robotics - Attach It

The robotics team continues to be short on attendance and supplies. We're still waiting to 3D-print some important piece, but we did our best to attach the ball input belt to the robot base. Since it's diagonal, we found some L brackets and bent them to produce the appropriate angle. It turned out that [1] it's hard to bend things with pliers and stop them from just arcing and [2] we didn't actually need to destroy those L brackets. 

I suggested that we take advantage of the metal channels with 8 holes around each attachment point and simply rotate one by 45 degrees and screw it in. That would have worked, but the corner of the channel hit the channel below it. running parallel to the floor. We then discovered some short flat pieces (that were bent up for some reason), which I hammered into straightness. The attachment was then a success. It was a challenge aligning the other side, but we (down to 2 people at this point in the meeting) got it standing up and stable enough.