Who Builds your Bot?

[David Kelly]

Originally posted by Adam Y.
Wait a second that is not really a problem as long as the teams are not using big dangerous tools. How baddly can you hurt yourself using a hacksaw??

Pretty badly... refer to my hacksaw injury in this previous thread.


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[Adam Y.]

Pretty badly... refer to my hacksaw injury in this previous thread.

Yeah but you really cannot do anything about. It happens sometimes. The only thing you can do is wear your googles, be alert, and do not fool around.

[Kyle]

Originally posted by Adam Y.
Wait a second that is not really a problem as long as the teams are not using big dangerous tools. How baddly can you hurt yourself using a hacksaw?? \

this year i was holding a peice of metal when someone was using a hacksaw and the blade broke and in to a few peices that did fly off and hit me and another person, so yes something wiht lots of sharp teath can be dangerous.

[Rickertsen2]

Originally posted by Jeff Waegelin
Much better, M I was a little concerned by your previous statements, but your last post seems to fit more what I was thinking. Sorry for the misunderstanding, there.

I agree

[dddriveman]

We have one engineer. The students did all the work this year the only reason the adults ever showed up was to watch us and make sure we didn't cut each other up into small little pieces when using the machining equipment. I like it this way and it was kinda funny but, we taught our engineer more then he tought us. Seeing as he was an programing engineer that updated all the software in the new f/a-22, he did not have much knowledge in any mechanical fields. We didn't have any knowledge in mechanical fields either so we learned alot of new things together. This year was probably the best experience I have ever had in my life, and it was all thanks to FIRST!

[PhatalEphekt]

The robot was programmed by me. When I had a question about syntax, I would ask a parent who know PBasic.
The robot was designed by the team members - ideas were first drawn on paper/dry erase board, then voted on by the team, then drawn up in AutoDesk, and if necessary transferred over to FeatureCAM - for the CNC.
The robot was machined by 1 student, our team captain. He was in the shop 3 hours during school every day, and after school, he was there until 9 pm, every night.
The robot was constructed by students, 3-4 die hards - including myself. Every last screw was put in by a student.

The shop teacher was there to show us how to use the CNC. A prime example of how our robot was designed by students is when we had 1 student working on the sprocket for our tracks. He worked every day after school for a week, with the mentor by his side. But, the mentor did not tell him what to do, even though he had the answer. The student would finish a drawing, and the mentor would either nod his head in approval/disapproval.

I can safely say that our robot is 100% student blood, sweat, and tears.

Scott

[vernn]

thats an interesting question. I only assume most teams like ours work completely together with their mentors and students. I think most of the building is done by all of us. The mentors teach and help and supervise and we each have our indevidual assignments obviously,but i think it is and should be a complete team effort!