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Re: Robot Tips For Rookie Teams

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This thread isn't just about funding. We are talking a little about funding a little bit, though the sole purpose of this thread is to have a place for newbie teams to get advice from!
Huh? Where did he say/imply the thread was just about fundraising?

Regardless, fundraising is a vital part of successful participation in FIRST, and that was useful advice.
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Re: Robot Tips For Rookie Teams

One of the most important pieces of advice is to try to build within your capabilities. It sounds like a tautology and is therefore easy to overlook. To make it concrete, here's my team capability checklist:

Basics:
  • Do you at least have these basic tools you will almost surely need?
    • Wrenches
    • Pliers
    • Crimpers
    • Screw drivers
    • Drill
    • Drill bits
    • Taps
    • Hack saw

Materials:
  • Which materials do you know how to get?
    • Aluminum bar/plate/tubing/angle/rod
    • Steel bar/plate/tubing/angle/rod
    • Titanium
    • 80/20
    • Wood
    • Plastics (Lexan, HDPE, Delrin, etc.)
    • Composites (fiberglass, carbon fiber, etc.)
    • Other?
  • How quickly can you get them?
  • Which materials fit in your budget?
  • Which materials do your members have experience working with?

Drafting:
  • Does anyone know CAD?
    • What kind?
  • How about drafting by hand?
Machine shop:
  • For each of mill/lathe/waterjet/laser:
    • Can you do this in house?
    • Do you have someplace you could send it?
    • How long will it take?
    • What sort of accuracy can you get?
  • For 3d printing: All of the above, plus:
    • What are your material options?
    • How strong is it?
  • Do you have access to welding? What type? Which materials can you work with? Turn around times?
  • Do you have access to anodizing or powder coating? What kind? How long is the turn around?
  • Can you work with sheet metal?
    • Do you know how to design it?
    • Do you have access to a shear and a break? What size?

Electrical:
  • How long would it take your team to wire a doorbell?
  • Could your team build a basic low-pass filter?
  • Do you know how to make a custom PCB?

Programming:
  • How many students know your chosen programming language? And how well?
  • How many mentors? And how well?

I recomend actually writing down estimates for each of these questions. Every team's resources have limitations. You should know what your team's are.

A teams that understands what they can do well will do better than a team with more resources that doesn't know how to use them. Most of the wooden robots that I've seen have been above average.
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Re: Robot Tips For Rookie Teams

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This thread isn't just about funding. We are talking a little about funding a little bit, though the sole purpose of this thread is to have a place for newbie teams to get advice from!
Wasn't meaning to imply it was, just commenting on the previous posts focused on funding!

Having money is a necessary prerequisite to build a robot: ergo, making use of FIRST's resources for acquiring funding should be high on any-- rookie or veteran-- team's list.
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Re: Robot Tips For Rookie Teams

Oh. no. I wasn't trying to be mean or anything. Sorry about the misunderstanding!
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