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AKA: Scott Strange
FRC #2984 (Viking Robotics)
Team Role: Leadership
 
Join Date: Jan 2012
Rookie Year: 2001
Location: La Jolla
Posts: 41
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Operation: Electronics Compendium

Hi.
I am putting together a compendium of wiring components and techniques, built from the community. I would like products, desrciptions, pictures, videos, anything. i will be collecting pictures and info at Las Vegas regional, and you can email anything really big to scottwstrange@gmail.com.

this will be a resource that i wil show and distribute to teams, especially rookies(it makes me cringe to see some of the rookie wiring solutions, and dont even get me started on my own team, who took apart my electronics case and stuck it all together with excessive amounts of velcro and zip ties. the horror!)

anyway,
I am just wondering where everyone gets their wiring and pneumatics components. I mean anything and everything!
this includes:
wire(6,12,14,16,18,24 awg)
connectors
cable management
pwm supplies
pneumatic tubing
solenoids/manifolds
mounting techniques
sensors
any kinds of crazy electronics mounting or setup ideas, i would love to see all the ideas that everyone else has deemed crazy.

also, anything else that could be useful(comon problems, rookie mistakes)

I am the master electronics person for 2984 Viking Robotics, and i would like to have this on the internet by the end of this summer. it will have a wiki page and i will post it on here as some kind of public document. anyone whocontributes will be recognized.
Thanks, and-
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