pic: Honey, I Shrunk The Rack!

[MattLi]

Question- How have other teams gone about building the acual size rack?
It's huge and takes a lot of materials. Any suggestions on how to make a cheap and easy rack?

[Kingofl337]

Awwww. And I thought our 1/3rd scale rack was sweet. Thats awesome! You guys order 4" Cathode Tubes for it? Very nice Art! Very Nice!

Can we borrow that Saturday?

[skimoose]

Originally Posted by Kingofl337

Awwww. And I thought our 1/3rd scale rack was sweet. Thats awesome! You guys order 4" Cathode Tubes for it? Very nice Art! Very Nice!

I thought about picking up some 4" Cathodes or I might make an array of green LEDs salvaged from some traffic signals that I picked up at work. Right now we're just working on manipulator designs with the rack. Autonomous will be a little later.

Originally Posted by Kingofl337

Can we borrow that Saturday?

If you don't mind 4 hours of travel to pick it up and bring it back!

[Ericgehrken]

VEX Prototyping I guess.

[rohit]

Nice! I wish we had enough people (and money) to do that

[KitKat89]

Originally Posted by MattLi

Question- How have other teams gone about building the acual size rack?
It's huge and takes a lot of materials. Any suggestions on how to make a cheap and easy rack?

We're using PVC pipe instead of metal. Plus other replacements, so that you get the same general preperties without the huge expense.

[Elgin Clock]

Very nice Art! I would expect no less than an awesome start to the season from you and the rest of GUS by making this.

Now all we need is some detailed pics and some CAD drawings to recreate this beauty.

Or at least some video of the rack in motion to see how it compares to the real thing.

Kudos to 228 for the mini-rack!

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Now all we need is some detailed pics and some CAD drawings to recreate this beauty.

Elgin, just take the official FRC Rack CAD Drawings from the FIRST Website, divide all the dimensions by 3, and then use the nearest available material size. (Such as for the 2" actual-size spider legs, you can use 3/4" Electrical PVC pipe.)

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

Elgin, just take the official FRC Rack CAD Drawings from the FIRST Website, divide all the dimensions by 3, and then use the nearest available material size. (Such as for the 2" actual-size spider legs, you can use 3/4" Electrical PVC pipe.)

Ha ha ha works for me. I have to go to the store sometime soon anyways to get some PVC for a side project of mine. (Something a little different than a rack ) Maybe it'll be wise to make one like you did so everyone understands the true nature of the rack before our first competition.

Or maybe after I CAD the whole rack up, I'll just pop the parts in the rapid prototype machine at school. Who knows.