Robot Vinyls or Stickers?
 

Where do you guys get your decals for your robot? Team Number and sponsor stickers?

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Last year we went to a local sign company that does vinyl decals. We had them do them so that they could be stuck on the inside of the lexan covering.

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We got our team number and logo laser cut in to our side panels.

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Our sponsor's have a multimedia guy who prints all of are signs, stickers, logos, and ID cards for us. He also takes many our pictures at competitions.

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I worked at a sign shop two summers ago. I go to them every year with the logos and designs, they cut it out (of vinyl), and I install it on the robot.

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Grrr...how is a poor soul like me suppose to find your sign ship two summers ago and order some stickers? LOL :-)

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we simply use sticker paper you buy at office depot, just print them and cut them out and peel the backing and stick it to a side of the bot. it's pretty fast and easy.

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We had window decals (or something like that) printed on an inkjet that we used on part of the robot. The other part was electrical tape.

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lol, it helped that it was my dad's shop, lol. also they donate the vinyl to us. I do the work on prepping it and installing it, so all they donate is the cost of the raw vinyl before it is cut.

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We used velcro and poster paper mounted on foam core.
Worked fine.

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In past years we've usually gone with:
-laminating big posters of our logos and taping them on
-using a student's uncle to print big stickers to go on some large surface area
-having students hand draw and color some awesome looking designs on posters and then laminating it.

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SWEET...This sounds more like our budget! Thanks Tiffany!

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My team usually just uses the decals our sponsors give us, or we have a machinists that is our sponsor and he engraves all of our sponsors on our robot. He also mills out our numbers for us.

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White contact paper, an X-acto knife, and a steady hand.

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One of our Sponsors, Gerber Scietific, makes the those really neat decal printers/cutters and they print out those great translucent graphics we have every year.