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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV
Very cool video. I love the detailed explanation, hopefully a lot of young teams see this.
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Thanks so much.
Team [REDACTED]'s goal is to help out those young teams and show that you can build a robot that can play the game w/o fancy tools, w/o CAD abilities.
We build at the Washington FIRST Robotics Fieldhouse which is why you see a set of Red and Blue road cases for the PNW District. Not really visible in this year's video is the Washington FIRST Robotics machine shop trailer. That trailer contains a lathe, mill, welding equipment, taps, dies and many other tools. We used the Fieldhouse's tool box stocked with mid grade basic hand tools. In the interest of time we did break down and use the table saw, chop saw and drill press acquired to build all those road cases. However those tasks could have been done with hand held saws and drills.
We do have participants versed in CAD but for our build the design exclusively used a white board and a calculator ap on a smart phone.
We would like to thank our sponsors who made it possible.
AndyMark for their donation of the AM14U3 and many other parts.
The folks at Ri3D who welcomed us into the mix.
The following Washington FIRST Robotic FRC Teams
Bear Metal 2046 from Tahoma HS for the use of a control system, motors, motor controllers, batteries and pretty much all of your basic KOP type items.
Lion Robotics 2907 from Auburn Mountainview HS (a PNW district event site host) for the use of some parts when we needed them in a pinch.
Tread 3219 from Auburn HS (another PNW district event site host) for the use of the field elements the built for the kickoff they hosted.