Thread: JVN Build Tip: Prototyping
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Re: JVN Build Tip: Prototyping
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Originally Posted by iCurtis View Post
John,

From the pictures you post, it seems like 148 moves directly from cardboard and Vex into sheet metal and the production robot. Is this the case? For the robots I've worked on, we typically went from cardboard to plywood to plywood & shafts powered by drills to rough cut aluminum then to the final robot part. It seems like you skip by that rough aluminum step. I know you use a lot more CAD than we did, but do you just trust that your Vex and cardboard dimensions are "good enough"? Or do you end up rebuilding some manipulators if you find that your dimensions don't work as well as you anticipated?
I know they plan in adjustable features by adding extra sets of holes and such, we may have copied this attribute when we stole their entire 2007 arm effectively....
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