Team 1511 - The benefits of design pay off!

[Kims Robot]

So last year was our first year designing the entire robot in Inventor before too much was made, but many of the parts we still brute forced together ourselves. It was a learning curve since none of our mentors know Inventor, but we figured it out.

This year, 100% of the upper assembly was designed before anything was bought/made. 50 Part files and over 100 manfactured parts (and a lot of waiting), all of our parts came back and our upper robot was assembled, locked to the chassis and wired in a day and a half!!
http://rollingthunder.smugmug.com/ga...Y2Jw#254319152

I will post better photos when we get them (and we are still waiting for a few last parts, so it will look a little different, but I have to say, it was amazing that we used pneumatics for the first time this year, and all of our parts worked nearly exactly as we expected them to. Amazing!! (Im still waiting for something to go wrong... Ive never seen a robot assembled and working that quickly!!)

Finally our programmers & drivers get some time with it!