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Re: Cool new ideas for FIRST Robots - who has them?

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Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain
I'm working on an omni wheel drive train, using EL wire in all our electronic wiring (to give a really cool lighting effect) and I'm designing an absolutely amazing control system but i got to take the design to a metal shop to get a price estimate.

P.S. i have liquid electrical tape and I'm wondering if it is allowed on the robots.
Teams commonly use it to insulate their battery leads.

a machine shop will likely price such a project out, very very high. In 2004 we got a quote for how much it would cost to machine a transmission similar to the Technokats 2003 drive, and it came out at around $10,000 (No joke).
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