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The files, issues, wiki pages, etc. for the design of our 2014 FIRST Robotics Competition robot
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Print Something With the 3D Printer #70

Closed Polluxium closed 10 years ago

Polluxium commented 10 years ago

Useful or useless, we just need to figure out how the heck to use this 3D printer.

agausmann commented 10 years ago

I second the motion.

bctwaugh commented 10 years ago

YES, let's!!!!!! On Feb 24, 2014 9:21 AM, "Adam G" notifications@github.com wrote:

I second the motion.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/frc-4931/2014-Design/issues/70#issuecomment-35896363 .

rhauch commented 10 years ago

First step is to have a 3D CAD model of whatever we want printed. And interestingly enough, @jasonsch99 will be teaching how to use the CAD tools tonight!

agausmann commented 10 years ago

Let's use the CAD file the team made of the robot last night and scale it down to about 1:6 or 1:8... although the 80-20 may be a bit too detailed for the printer.

rhauch commented 10 years ago

There are actually a few parts that we want to have for the robot: in particular, we're using an 80/20 corner bracket to hold the reet sensors that signal the code to stop the net arms when closing. We could make two blocks that can be attached to the 80/20, that can each hold a reet sensor, and that are more round so as to not damage the ball if it hits the block.

We can sketch this up at tonight's meeting, and our CAD modelers can go nuts.

agausmann commented 10 years ago

Too bad I won't be there tonight... I was starting to get the hang of it last night. Also, if you guys don't mind, I may use the printer for a couple of parts for personal use. (I'm planning on building a small RC robot sometime)

Zabot commented 10 years ago

If you guys haven't already, check out Thingiverse, it's a collection of printable items. There's a lot of good stuff there. Not necessarily FRC specific, but calibration tests and utilities:
Thingiverse

rhauch commented 10 years ago

We didn't really do this for competition, so closing. (For post-season activities, we should create new issues under our main GitHub repository).