For our offseason training, the students came up with a general checklist that all new students will have to check off in order to be considered a "completely knowledgeable" member of the team.
The mechanical team checklist includes skills in both processes and in identifying certain basic parts that are used to build a robot. The students decided that to be considered a "full member of the mechanical team" , this checklist had to be filled out:
- Identify different components of last year’s robot
CAD - Measurements (how to measure stuff in CAD)
Basic Skills - Drilling
- Center punch
- Deburring
- Battery
- Riveting
- Pneumatic (hook up)
- Hand
- How they work
- Using wrenches/Allen wrenches
- Ratcheting
- Clamp/Vice
- Vice grips
- Measurements
- Calipers
- Tape Measurer
- Using sharpies
- Basic Tools
- Chain Breakers (Type)
- Wrenches Color System
- Hack Saw
- Mallet
- Tap
- Tin Snips
Parts (Identify/Find) - Types of Shafts/Bearings
- Round
- Thunderhex
- Hex
- Bushing
- Shaft Collars (tighten)
- Types of Nuts and Bolts
- 10
- 32
- ¼ - 20
- Shoulder Bolts
- Chain and Sprockets
- 25 Chain
- 35 Chain
- Sprockets
- Chain Tensioner
- Belts and Pulleys
- Spacers
- Washers
- Stand Offs
- Lexan
- Clear or Smoked
- 1/8
- 1/16
- Metal
- Tube and Versatube
- Angle
- 1x1
- 1x2
- “C” Channel
- Gussets
- “L”
- “T”
- Custom
- 1/8
- 1/16
- Sheet Metal
- 1/4
- 1/8
- 090
- Types of Wheels
- Pneumatic
- Mecanum
- Omni
- Traction