Mentor/Student Involvement Philosophies

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by mentorDon

OOOHHH! Life isn't fair I'm told. How many of you squawking that sentiment have access to a sponsor with CNC equipment?

Originally Posted by mentorDon

How many Squawkers here could build a robot for less than $4000 if they had to count CNC machining time at $100+ per hour and all materials? (Programming and run time for just 1 or 2 parts would be even more costly.) Very few in my estimation. I don't care if you continue to use your machine shop sponser, you just need to count it in your budget.

Our group of "squawkers" won a World Championship in 2008 without access to a sponsor with CNC equipment.

Since then we've gone out and acquired a fantastic sheet metal sponsor. The performance of our robots hasn't changed, just the process that we go through to build them.