pic: Swamp Thing's Sprockets

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally Posted by BillBartell

just wondering who made them? I thought that this was supposed to be a highschool preoject...were the kids design, fabricate, and test the robot all by themselves. On my team..we have mentors to help us with complex problems but for the main part, all of the designs and deciosions are made by the team captains.

The genius of FIRST is there isn't a rule that things must be done a certain way.

Student designed and built? Go for it. One of these years you may decide you want to explore something more and work even more closely with mentors.

Lots of engineers, teams do things differently, and it's all good.

You doing all your own welding? We didn't, til last year. We have 5 student TIG welders this year.

A mentor was doing the web til last year - it was me. *chuckle* I'm no pro. No student was inspired to do it til last year. Our student webmaster is the pro.

I'm doing the public relations. However it's rubbing off on other team members, and now some of our shyest members can walk into a congresswoman's open house, the new school superintendent's open house, and schmooze with the best of them.

There's much more to the FIRST program than just building the robot, and FIRST gives you the freedom to explore all of it at your own team's pace.

[psychoCHIPMUNKK]

Major kudos to you. I can't wait to see what you'll do with the rest of the bot if you spend that much time on a sprocket.

[Gadget470]

Originally Posted by psychoCHIPMUNKK

Major kudos to you. I can't wait to see what you'll do with the rest of the bot if you spend that much time on a sprocket.

Although I bet the whole bot will look cool, they didn't really spend "that much time" on the sprocket. Water-jet machines cut out the design autmatically as per an AutoCAD file which, with Tytus' skills, was probably made in under 5 minutes.

I'll bet it took less time than ordering from any given company.

[Tytus Gerrish]

Thanks all,

The night before wathejetting i got an email that said "Watterjet confirmed" Immideately i got on autocad and thought of whatever i could do and draw for the engineers to put into the watterjet, The Eyes And the "Speedholes" are mine we were watterjetting at BTI Inc down the street from our school For SEVEN HOURS!!!!! Alot of Parts We Are SO Greatfull We Even Put BTI watterjetted into our chasis The sprockets are Real bling! i cant Give any clues as to what theyre for yet But Rest Assured It Will Be awesome