We use this a brainbox SW-005 we haven’t had any issues with it’s robustness. Hopefully we don’t have too many devices and can just run the new radio with the plethora of ports (thanks @kiettyyyy).
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We found 1690s FOM system to be particularly simple and effective
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Another Intake question, If it has already been answerd, i apologize. But what material are you guys printing the dead axle hubs out of and did you have issues with the hubs breaking when your intake ran into something?
Or due to the nature of a polycarb tube dead axle roller, were the hubs able to be spared the majorety of the time?
Are they something fancy like PA6-CF or was something that extreme not needed?
Sorry for the delay. Pretty much all the intake dead-axle hubs are Markforged Onyx filament.
We’re looking at incorporating more PA6-CF equivalent materials on our Bambu printers going forward. We recently grew our Bambu print farm to two X1C and four P1S printers, all with AMS, which has really accelerated our printing capabilities! We love the Bambu printers for their speed, accuracy, and quality of life features that our past Markforged and Prusa printers lacked.
These hubs take a lot of impact and abuse, the strong filament was pretty key in this application. I am sure something like the PA6-CF would have performed similarly to our Onyx hubs.
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@Michael_Corsetto
Can I ping you again for this question? Big thanks!
No worries 
Yeah, we recently got a Bambu lab X1c and love it so far! I was trying to figure out what filaments might be required for different parts of a robot.
Looking into next season we are looking to be 3D printing a lot more stuff, including moving over to the dead axle intake system from the traditional 1/2 in hex.
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From my perspective, our initial draft we bring to strategy discussions with alliance partners often changes, in small ways 90% of the time and in big ways maybe 20-30% of the time. The discussions with alliance partners are crucial to ensuring everyone is comfortable and ready for an agreed upon plan.
We have a great talk on our approach here from one of our strategy subteam coaches @Richard_McCann and our 2023/2024 student match strategist Kina: https://youtu.be/51A5MIflmz8?si=33mfHTKI-mjNMxzg
Regarding how we deal with teams that don’t want to play the role in our initial draft, I think our student strategist often will make an appeal for why we believe the draft is the best way forward, but ultimately if a team feels differently we need to respect that and adjust our plan to best match all team’s expectations.
Sometimes the difference in opinion is minor, and we feel comfortable playing the match with the modified strategy.
Other times, and this is less common, a partner team refuses to see any reasonable path and isn’t willing to work with us to find a shared solution. In these cases, we give feedback to our scouting group to add this team to our proposed DNP list for review that evening.
Either way, you just have to play the match with your alliance partners to the best of your ability, and at a certain point it isn’t worth pushing too hard for what your team thinks is “best”. I think we’ve seen examples, some very public, of teams pushing too hard and causing all sorts of issues Ex: 2024 Newton Alliance Selection. At a certain point it’s important to accept what you cannot control and make the best of the situation.
Hope this helps!
-Mike
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Could you guys elaborate on this on what makes your guys intake similar to 4414’s in 2023 and what was adopted from it for your design this year?
I misspoke, I meant 1323 2023. Look how their intake plates (red) bolt to their moving wrist plates (blue). We did something very similar on our intake this year, so swapping intakes did not require removing the wrist.
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Thanks for the quick reply. Thats a really clever design and something I’m going to encourage my students to try if needed next season.