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Originally Posted by jab0ii
Hi, I'm a sophomore and this year I decided to fully commit to our school's robotic club. The problem is I don't know where to start learning about everything in a robot ( motors, gears, electrical, pneumatics, wheels etc..)
I wish to accumulate enough knowledge that I can literally build a First robot myself when I'm a senior. Any advices will be appreciated!  |
I'm a sophmore now, and I started to become really involved during build season of 2008 (my freshman year). I just showed up alot, and was asked to do things by the higher ranking students on the team. Over time, I began to gain alot of knowledge about robots, and I was asked to join the pit team. Throughout being on the pit, and just being around robots, I gained alot of knowledge about them. Towards the end of the year, I completely took apart the wiring on the 2007 robot and re-wired it as just the drivebase. We loaded the 2008 code onto it, and it drove!
I then started to learn SolidWorks, working with current members of our team. Over the summer, I designed possible robot frames, gearboxes and parts for future years. None of them were ever implemented into our final concepts, but the critique I recieved about them helped me improve my designs. Now, for the 2009 year, I am the student leader of the CAD subteam, and I am one of the two student co-leaders the robot build team.
The key thing here is to show up. Doing CAD helps alot as well.
Also, be sure that if you have any questions, ask anybody else. Any mentor would be happy to answer it.