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Michael Blake 14-02-2012 13:05

#3481 Bronc Botz - FRC tease...
 
2nd year FRC team... WHAT are we up to?

This is the practice bot metal... competition bot metal is off for paint...

At this point, on the box aluminum, the lightening holes have not been added and the trusses do not have their angle cuts yet...

ANY comments would be appreciated... THANKS!










thefro526 14-02-2012 13:12

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Looks like someone found themselves a sheet metal sponsor.

Laser? Waterjet?

Michael Blake 14-02-2012 13:14

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Quote:

Originally Posted by thefro526 (Post 1126468)
Looks like someone found themselves a sheet metal sponsor.

Laser? Waterjet?

Believe it or not, a _metal bit_...

www.m2global.com

akoscielski3 14-02-2012 13:41

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Oh My god. These parts look almost exactly like ours. This is what it looked like when we got all of our parts in. Except we painted them, and have our biggest sponsor (my dad's company lol) water-jet the parts :)

Michael Blake 14-02-2012 13:46

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Quote:

Originally Posted by akoscielski3 (Post 1126484)
Oh My god. These parts look almost exactly like ours. This is what it looked like when we got all of our parts in. Except we painted them, and have our biggest sponsor (my dad's company lol) water-jet the parts :)

AND your point/comment is _exactly_ WHAT, Aaron? LOL ;-)

thefro526 14-02-2012 13:50

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael Blake (Post 1126472)
Believe it or not, a _metal bit_...

www.m2global.com

Yikes, that must've taken some time.

Looks great though!

Michael Blake 14-02-2012 14:01

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Quote:

Originally Posted by thefro526 (Post 1126490)
Yikes, that must've taken some time.

Looks great though!

Dustin, our machine shop sponsor, www.m2global.com , does work for military aviation... and the sheet metal cannot be laser cut in aviation due to the heating at the edges, so they use a metal bit.

The machine M2 uses is awesomely fast... in the videos I've seen of them cutting our metal on 4'x4' sheets the speed appears to be 80% of a laser cut!!

GLAD you like what you see... 14 months ago we didn't know a "Digital Sidecar from a Railway Car"... I'm sure you can appreciate ALL that has gone into trying to elevate this team to a high-ranking here in Texas... ;-)

wilsonmw04 14-02-2012 15:01

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If you just got these parts today, I know what you are up to: lots of late nights putting these parts together! :]

and dude!!

Helotes, TX rocks! Lived in the Northside for 5 years. My Scout troop was out there. Lived in Braun Station off Bandera Rd.
Good Memories...

Michael Blake 14-02-2012 17:40

Re: #3481 Bronc Botz - FRC tease...
 
Just came back from THANKING our powder coat sponsor... Lone Star Powder Coating, San Antonio...

AWESOME of them to have done the school colors of blue/orange for FREE on our competition bot!!

Powder coated FRC robots are a beautiful sight!

Michael Blake 15-02-2012 00:48

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I thought there would be a little more interest/comments given we're a 2nd year team trying to make the leap...

Oh well... back to work...

waialua359 15-02-2012 00:54

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Nice work and sponsorship.
At first I thought the sponsor was IFI.:cool:

Now its more incentive for us to finally get a Waterjet by summer 2012.......

Meredith Novak 15-02-2012 00:59

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael Blake (Post 1127007)
I thought there would be a little more interest/comments given we're a 2nd year team trying to make the leap...

Oh well... back to work...

Hi Michael,

Looks awesome. Can't wait to see it at Dallas East! Don't feel bad if you don't get a lot of comments - everyone is in total crunch time (except this Business Group mentor apparently).

As soon as we are all "bagged," you will get some attention, I promise. I started a thread announcing an off-season in Arkansas and got not one response yet. So, you need to go look that up also. ;)

Cheers, Meredith

Michael Blake 15-02-2012 12:02

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Quote:

Originally Posted by waialua359 (Post 1127009)
Nice work and sponsorship.
At first I thought the sponsor was IFI.:cool:

Glenn, that's interesting that you would think IFI cut/bent our metal... I'm interested in knowing the buzz, if any, about our team...

We'd be _honored_ to be an IFI-team... but, we have a LONG way to go for that to _even be_ a possibility... and I'm not sure they're interested in taking on another team... so, we _push_ forward...

THANKS for the compliment, hope to meet you at Lonestar-Houston (we'll be spectators)...

--Michael

waialua359 15-02-2012 21:56

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael Blake (Post 1127262)
Glenn, that's interesting that you would think IFI cut/bent our metal... I'm interested in knowing the buzz, if any, about our team...

We'd be _honored_ to be an IFI-team... but, we have a LONG way to go for that to _even be_ a possibility... and I'm not sure they're interested in taking on another team... so, we _push_ forward...

THANKS for the compliment, hope to meet you at Lonestar-Houston (we'll be spectators)...

--Michael

No problem. I just made that comment based on no other information other than your photos.
Very impressive and I'm sure your robot will turn heads once its complete.

Walter Deitzler 15-02-2012 22:06

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All I can say is that you guys are WAY better off than we were in our 2nd season. By this time our main materials was pvc and wood. Good job to you guys! Good luck! If you make it to STL, I come check you out, seeing as I live in the area. Kepp up the good work!


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