Technical Web Series Featuring FRC Team 3506

[OccamzRazor]

For your enjoyment I am going to be posting the links to a web series I am creating as part of my job for TPM of Charlotte, NC. TPM is a technological solutions company that provides services to the engineering and design community and we are featuring the team and how 3D manufacturing technology and robotics go hand in hand.

This series is geared for SOLIDWORKS users, robotics enthusiasts, practicing engineers, and students alike but can most certainly be applied to any CAD platform of your choosing.

This series is focused on getting your ideas to the prototype and manufacturing phase quickly and will feature several ideas on how to do just that using a given tool whether it is 3D printing, CAD, or FEA Simulation.

The first series features a roller claw prototype and how it can be scaled and placed in CAD with minimal measurement. Our team is driven by students and everything you see is 100% mentor hands off and created by high school students. For the SOLIDWORKS users, please check out the other help tip videos we post on the TPM Solutions YouTube page as well!

http://www.tpm.com/three-minute-thur...ideas-reality/

Please give me input! I will be posting a few of these plus hosting webinars for these topics and I would love to have you guys request some things for your community!

[OccamzRazor]

The first installment to the technical web series is here and features a 7 minute video focused around how to make really organic shapes for your robot using SOLIDWORKS where you snap a photo and import it into the software to finish your design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5fI...B7DF534750 29

The second installment posted just today was a live webinar and featured some techniques such as making a robot frame in 5 minutes, assembling components to a ball shooter with opposite hand parts, and making sure your assemblies do not hit each other on the final robot. The recording for this one is about 25 minutes and can be viewed here and contains some very valuable hints for new CAD users and robot designers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAhn...ature=youtu.be

Please give us any input on these videos you may have for our future installments. Thanks again to the folks who watched our live webinars!