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Originally Posted by Gadget470
Please all:
Do not turn this thread into an Engineer vs College vs High School debate.
That has been debated enough.
The two sides of the argument are:
HS Built) Kids learn more by doing.
Eng Built) Kids learn more by seeing things done "right".
Neither can be proven either way. Each individual is different. I've been a student on two teams. One which was 90% "Adult" designed/built, and the other which was 90% "HS Student" designed/built. I won't say which I learned more from because I am a unique person with a unique experience.
As to that specific sprocket, two retro words:
Way Cool.
I'm pretty sure Tytus designed this, as he states he drew the "Eyes" in AutoCAD "last night" from the post date. To my knowledge, Tytus is a high school senior with CAD experience. The piece was cut with a water-jet at BTI (One of 179's sponsors). So your comment about the engineer built product is irrelevent. The water-jet machine (seemingly) loads the AutoCAD file, and makes its cuts where lines are in the drawing file.
1) Was this water-jet cut piece necessary?
2) Does it look really cool?
3) Could they buy an off-the-shelf item that does the same function?
4) If so, does it really matter who manufactures the product?
1) No.
2) Yes.
3) Yes.
4) No.
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Ok, brandon since you asked....
first... im a jounior, not a seinor
I didnt draw this sprocket Dan Quiggle(Prat&Whitney, Under EDF INC) Did Tho i could draw sprockets fairly easy
The eyes are my creation they are scaled down from my orignal verson witch can be seen on another piece of the Bot
YES Its Made of aluminum
Yes, It was nessarry to have them watterjetted, Unless we wanted to spend 36 man hours a sprocket on them and the alumionum sprockets weigh a half pound each compared to a steel one off the shelf would weigh 2.5 pounds
NO, you cant know what theyre for yet
Yes, The waterjet machine is awesome
NO, we cant afford one the machine, the 50HP pump, the watter softener, the abrasive sand, matinance, sound ordnance permits, ETC...
BTI Is like a sponsor they dont give us money but they let us do watterjetting and some machaning we can't do ourselves .and gave us a tour of their shop And they gave us students alot of knowledge about machaning
and Am i realy that mysterious that Breandon Speculates about me?