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Re: Fabrication
1768 does very very close to all of our fabrication in house. We have one Bridgeport and one functional lathe, we work hard to make sure that these machines are running all the time. This year we sent out 3 shooter parts to be water jetted, we had never done that before but we didn't see any other reasonable way to make a large cam or to frame out of shooter other than water jetted plates.
Because we need our machines to be running all the time and they are often the rate limiting step in the robot construction process we have started using quite a bit more ABS in our designs, it machines like butter and is incredibly strong.
We have our CAD team working all the time as well and the robot construction doesn't usually pass the CAD until mid way through week 5 or so.
As far as the in house vs sent out argument I think students are going to learn either way, it is just a matter of what they learn and in what areas they excel.
~DK
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