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Originally Posted by pakrat
Nice work, are you sponsored by a laser cutting company?? Seems like you guys get a lot of that stuff done...
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Actually we are sponsored by GM Conveyors, Controls, Robotics, and Welding but we have lotsa labs with lotsa neat equipment.
As for the prototype robot above it was all done at a local waterjet company - Copland Gibson at their full cost which was right around $400 for the first plate and about $250 for each additional (1st plate has a CAD fee) Water-jet cutting is an
extremely good deal for FIRST teams, we couldn't have done it with a CNC mill it would have been too expensive.
As for getting lots of parts made, well that's just part of the business situation and rules we have to live by.