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Re: Painting and Scheduling
We anodized our bots from 2006-2012, and we really loved the look of it. We often did 2 batches of 2 colors a piece. We were fortunate enough to have sponsors able to turn the parts around in 2-3 days. Even still, with the cleaning, prep, etc, we ended up taking 4-5 days out of the schedule to do so.
Last year we built our own powdercoating oven. It took a decent chunk of effort, but it's been one of the best things we've ever done. The whole team is involved in the coating of parts, from cleaning, prepping, spraying the parts to prepping the oven and clean-up. We're able to go from raw material to CNC to coated part assembled to a robot in a matter of hours.
If you have the means, and really want to 'paint' your bots, its an awesome way to keep the timeline under control.
See some of these attached photos of the oven and a batch of parts we cranked out in a single day.
-Brando
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-2005 New Jersey Regional Chairman's Award Winners
-2013 MORT Hall of Fame Inductee
NUTRONs (Team 125) '05-???
2007 Boston Regional Winners
2008 & 2009 Boston Regional Driving Tomorrow's Technology Award
2010 Boston Regional Creativity Award
2011 Bayou Regional Finalists, Innovation in Control Award, Boston Regional Finalists, Industrial Design Award
2012 New York City Regional Winners, Boston Regional Finalists, IRI Mentor of the Year
2013 Orlando Regional Finalists, Industrial Design Award, Boston Regional Winners, Pine Tree Regional Finalists
2014 Rhode Island District Winners, Excellence in Engineering Award, Northeastern University District Winners, Industrial Design Award, Pine Tree District Chairman's Award, Pine Tree District Winners
2015 South Florida Regional Chairman's Award, NU District Winners, NEDCMP Industrial Design Award, Hopper Division Finalists, Hopper/Newton Gracious Professionalism Award
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