pic: Electrical team is so messy

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[hipsterjr]

Amen to that Long live the engineers/mechcanics

[whytheheckme]

You don't even want to START this war
I could show you FAR worse pictures of our mechanical teams....

BTW the board looks nice. Nice raised RC.

Jacob

[GaryVoshol]

We make our electrical team clean up after themselves every evening. (And yes, we have a team this year, not just a person.)

But even so, those little bits of wire and stripped insulation and rejected connectors that wouldn't crimp right are nothing compared to the aluminum curly-cue shavings the mechs put out with the drill press!

[geeknerd99]

Our mess takes up 1/6th of the shop. Fabrication takes up the rest. I think we have a winner here.

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by geeknerd99

Our mess takes up 1/6th of the shop. Fabrication takes up the rest. I think we have a winner here.

Are you cutting parts from large pieces of stock? I didn't think so.

[65_Xero_Huskie]

pssssh
We made our electrical team be neat this year.
And it helped, its the neatest, smallest board ever!

[Alan8or]

Programming team is the cleanest team by far: just the occasional empty soda can!

[kevin.li.rit]

You're just jealous because you can't plumb electrons. =P

General notice to everyone:
Mechanical > Programming > Dirt > Human Players > Electrical


(Mechanical rocks, programmers don't take up space/weight, dirt makes plants grow, human players are at least athletic, and electrical... well umm no comment)

Originally Posted by Coffeeism

You're just jealous because you can't plumb electrons. =P

Shutup Kevin, you're just jealous because you can't make an Ackermann steering unit.

[Blue_Mist]

Originally Posted by Jaybee1405

General notice to everyone:
Mechanical > Programming > Dirt > Human Players > Electrical


(Mechanical rocks, programmers don't take up space/weight, dirt makes plants grow, human players are at least athletic, and electrical... well umm no comment)...

I do both mechanical AND electrical! Ohhh! Guess that makes me about as average as dirt...

We're doing a vertical board this year. The pneumatics will be on the lower level, next to motors, gear boxes, chain, etc. It'll be neater than last year's, where everything was crammed into a small, compact space less than 12" tall, sharing space with pneumatics and drive train.

And to Jaybee1405, it's a 40-Amp Fuse Panel.

Originally Posted by Blue_Mist

I do both mechanical AND electrical! Ohhh! Guess that makes me about as average as dirt...

We're doing a vertical board this year. The pneumatics will be on the lower level, next to motors, gear boxes, chain, etc. It'll be neater than last year's, where everything was crammed into a small, compact space less than 12" tall, sharing space with pneumatics and drive train.

And to Jaybee1405, it's a 40-Amp Fuse Panel.

Thanks for that, 40-Amp Fuse Panel. Ok so now my electrical vocab includes:
40 amp fuse panel
RC (thing with blinky lights!)
switch (which I won't forget to push this year and rob won't have to yell at me again at the ruckus)
fans! (ok fine I know they're victors)
spike lee's
big lego block


How am I doing?

[octothorpe]

Originally Posted by Blue_Mist

We're doing a vertical board this year. The pneumatics will be on the lower level, next to motors, gear boxes, chain, etc. It'll be neater than last year's, where everything was crammed into a small, compact space less than 12" tall, sharing space with pneumatics and drive train.

We'll need to make sure that vertical board is securely mounted to the tower. This may be more difficult than you anticipate, given that it'll need to stand off by at least 2 inches and only attach on the sides (the backs of the tower box tubing are where the rollers ride). I guess we can work it out somehow.

What, you mean you didn't like having to stick your hand down into the guts of the robot and fish around to find anything in the electronics?

On a side note, I read this thread last night and remember seeing your post, but I was so out of it at the time that I didn't even realize that it was you, or that it was our robot being discussed... :-/

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Originally Posted by Jaybee1405

General notice to everyone:
Mechanical > Programming > Dirt > Human Players > Electrical


(Mechanical rocks, programmers don't take up space/weight, dirt makes plants grow, human players are at least athletic, and electrical... well umm no comment)


Shutup Kevin, you're just jealous because you can't make an Ackermann steering unit.

Is that your ratio to how dirty things are???
Haha.

[efoote868]

Originally Posted by 65_Xero_Huskie

Is that your ratio to how dirty things are???
Haha.

then it would be
mechanical > dirt > human player > programming > electrical.

after gojo, everything (except for dirt) would be about equal