I can’t seem to find any teams that do.
We use them to make handles for lifting the robot. Other than that, maybe some non-structural stuff.
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I do
They’re all FTC teams.
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We do!!
Peanut is a pretty big part of our build style.
We also use walnut and churro.
Why do you ask?
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Peanut is pretty nifty stuff, we like to keep it around as well.
Peanut is good stuff when properly applied. We also like to use walnut. And oak. And poplar.
Each in its proper application.
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The 2018 FTC game had a lander with legs made out of peanut. We used those legs for the frame on our first swerve bot in 2019. Purchased new for 2020 swerve bot and just made new ones for 2022 swerve bot this past Saturday
I forgot to add for the chassis, my bad.
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I was today days old when I learned Peanut Extrusion meant more than just these:
I can’t say we’ve used it. Looks nifty! I’d be a bit worried about applying it to an FRC chassis, seems like you’d need a lot to get the strength (and not a huge advantage over normal 1x1 aluminum)?
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We have certainly used it in the chassis. Not for the “whole” chassis but for sections of it. It makes a great standoff material for plate aluminum.
For major drive rails, we like to run Walnut extrusion. Its a little bit heavy, but holds up well. We’ve stacked 2 pieces of peanut on top of each other, but that was for mounting other manipulators to the chassis.
Now…as always…if your team is not familiar with doing things like this, it’s better to stick with a simple chassis and not experiment with things like this during season.
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1293 has used Peanut and Walnut in several flavors going back to 2018. Solid standoff option, no angle brackets, and while the 1/4"-20 fastener is a little chonky for modern FRC it’s not hard to plunk a 5/8" hole spacing on a plate when we want to tune things and don’t care about the weight so much.
We used to use it a lot before we got access to aluminum welding, waterjet, etc. It is a perfectly good system to use (I preferred it over the rev extrusion we also used to use) but we typically replaced its job with alu box tubing (welded or gusset plates) these days from a weight and stock cost perspective.
I haven’t had those in forever 
We used peanut stock in 2018 for a drivetrain cross-brace to reinforce a drive frame with a gap in the front, but we sort of disregarded the point on the product page about using thread rolling screws, and tapped the peanut stock holes instead.
I would strongly recommend using thread rolling screws.
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Used 2 lengths on the front of 2017. The secret sauce of strength is the 1/4 x 7/8 4130 steel stuffed in the center.
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… and it is still bent.
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- Build frame with aluminum tube
- stuff steel bar into tube
- bend tube
- now try to get the steel out. No chance.
I blame Jack.
Aggressive driver was aggressive. Who’d’a thunk it? XD
Yeah I thought step 3. was not a planned part of your team’s build process. But as Jack and Cory would argue, “Drive heck out of robot” has always been a Stryke Force standard procedure.
Anyway who cares if you ever get that steel bar out?
Just wondering, what were the problems / difficulties you had with tapping threads in the peanut?