pic: 258 Sea Dawgs Concept
 

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That's pretty awesome! How close is the robot to the concept?

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There are some more pics posted earlier by Bill Gold showing the actual robot. We removed a few frame tubes to reduce weight. But other than that, the robot looks a lot like the concept-- even down to the lightening holes.

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Excellent diagrams.
Which software did you used? was it inventor?

These diagrams can make a great presentation or story board at the pits.
A lot of teams do not display their brainstorming and design work to the judges. I know a lot of the judges want to view the student's ideas and its relationship to the final product.

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The pics were generated in Inventor and then imported into PowerPoint.
You can either "save as" a bitmap within Inventor, or you can do a "shift-printscreen" and paste it into a photo editor. For this particular slide, I exported it as a .gif and specified white as a transparent color. This makes it much nicer to manipulate in PowerPoint.

This was pretty much our final design. We only made slight modifications after this slide was created.