**FIRST EMAIL**/Advance Material List for the 2005 Competition Now Available!

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FIRST EMAIL/Advance Material List for the 2005 Competition Now Available!

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Greetings Teams:

The Engineering Department is pleased to announce the availability of the Advance Material List for the 2005 competition. It is available on the FIRST web site at: http://www2.usfirst.org/2005comp/AdvanceBuy_r4.pdf

This list contains common materials required to build the robot or field elements for the 2005 competition that are not included in the kit provided by FIRST.

Happy Building!

Now all you speculatin’-type folk can really go to town!

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I am intrigued primarily by the quart of Sunny Summer paint (looked it up on the Behr website… it’s an orangish peach), the shallow pot magnet (only one?), and the Radio Shack project enclosures. Everything else seemed like pretty standard… PVC, lumber, mounting hardware, and a square foot of Lexan. Any speculation?

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Information about the magnet from the Grainger website: “Maximum Pull 20 Pounds, Diameter 2.030 Inches, Height 0.312 Inch, Hole Diameter 0.187 Inch”
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Could someone copy and paste the list into a post. It seems like there is a big backup on www.usfirst.org and my dialup connection isn’t wanting to get it.

Thanks
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nevermind i got it now
**FIRST Robotics Competition 2005 Advance Material List

**Rev. 4 1/5/05

Item Material Quantity Cost/ea Ext. Cost Source

1 10 ft. x 1 1/4 in. Sch. 40 Electrical Conduit

(Grey) PVC 10 $3.29 $32.90 Home Depot

2 1 1/4 in. PVC Schedule 40 End Cap 24 $0.51 $12.24 Home Depot

3 1in. PVC Sch. 40 Coupling (1 5/8 in. OD) 1 $0.29 $0.29 Home Depot

4 3/4 in. PVC Sch. 80 pipe (or a 3/4 in. schedule 80 PVC pipe nipple) 6 in Home Depot

5 1 ft x 1 ft x 1/4 in thick polycarbonate (Lexan) 1 $8.10 $8.10 McMaster #8574K28

6 1/4 in x 4 ft. x 8 ft. Plywood or Luan 1 $10.00 $10.00 Home Depot

7 1/2 in. x 4 ft. x 8 ft. Plywood 1 $15.00 $15.00 Home Depot

8 1 in. x 3 in. x 8 ft. SPF Lumber* 1 $1.97 $1.97 Home Depot

9 2 in. x 3 in. x 8 ft. SPF Lumber* 1 $1.97 $1.97 Home Depot

10 #8 x 1 1/4 in. Flat Head Wood Screw 1/2 lb. Home Depot

11 1/4 in. x 3/4 in. Hex Head Bolt 24 $0.12 $2.88 Home Depot

12 1/4 in. Washer 24 $0.05 $1.20 Home Depot

13 1/4-20 x 5/16 in. high Threaded Tee Nut 24 $0.22 $5.34 Home Depot, McMaster #90975A025

14 2 in. OD x 1/2 ( 9/32 in. ID) Fender Washer- Steel 4 $0.20 $0.80

Fastenal- Nick- 603-647-1890 or McMaster Carr www.mcmaster.com or

Ace Hardware

15 10-24 x 1.75 Flat Head Machine Screw 2 $0.10 $0.20 Home Depot or Ace Hardware

16 10-24 Elastic Stop Nut (Nylok) 5 $0.09 $0.45 Home Depot or Ace Hardware

17 10-32 x 1.75 Socket Head Cap Screw 12 $0.47 $5.64 McMaster #91255A276

18 10-32 nut 12 $0.01 $0.10 McMaster #90480A195

19 #10 Washer 2 $0.05 $0.10 Home Depot or Ace Hardware

20 4-40 x 1/4 in. Phillips head screw 4 $0.05 $0.20 Home Depot or Ace Hardware

21 4-40 x 3/8 in. Phillips head screw 1 $0.05 $0.05 Home Depot or Ace Hardware

22 4-40 nut 2 $0.05 $0.10 Home Depot or Ace Hardware

23 #4 flat washer 4 $0.05 $0.20 Home Depot or Ace Hardware

24 Shallow Pot Magnet- General P/N 376B 1 $4.85 $4.85

Grainger Cat. # 3G901, McMaster #

5685K32

25 ANSI 35 Connecting Link 1 $0.57 0.57 McMaster #6261K191

26 3/8 in dia Bolt, 5 in. long 4 Home Depot

27 Washer for 3/8 bolt 4 Home Depot

28 3/8 Elastic Stop Nut (Nyloc) for 3/8 bolt 4 Home Depot

29 1/2 in OD, 3/8 in ID hollow rod, polycarbonate (need 16 in.) 8 ft $6.40 $6.40 McMaster #8585K12

30 Behr Premium Plus Interior Flat Wall Paint- Sunny Summer (S-G-380) 1 qt Home Depot

31 4 in. x 2 in. x 1 in. Project Box 1 $2.69 $6.40 Radio Shack #270-1802

32 Lithium Multi-Purpose Grease Hardware or Auto Store

*Note: US dimensional lumber SPF (Spruce, Pine or Fir) actual size is smaller than its name

1 in. x 3 in. is approx. 3/4 in. x 2 1/2 in.

2 in. x 3 in. is approx. 1 1/2 in. x 2 1/2 in.

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I added emphasis to the above quote. I am on my lunch break at work and don’t have time to find last year’s BOM release, but did it use similar language? I’m intrigued to see what sort of “robot elements” we might be required to build.

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If you’re curious about the paint color, go here: http://www.behr.com/behrx/colorsmart/colorByName.jsp?colorName=sunny+summer

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Auto grease, a project box from radio shack, ‘sunny summer’ paint, a hollow polycarb rod, a magnet.
These are all items that are highly abnormal for FIRST fields, in my experience.
A little research yields that you can find the color ‘Sunny Summer’ by searching a javascript program by the Behr company. It appears to have the rgb value E8BA16 — awfully ugly color, IMHO.
Also, the grease suggests moving parts. I believe the project box will be used to house whatever IR component is surely to be on the field. Perhaps a robot will have to retrieve something stuck to the magnet… What is a ‘Pot’ Magnet, anyhow?

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“Shallow Pot Magnets are all cylindrical Alcomax permanent magnets assembled concentrically in a mild steel pot”

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8ft of polycarbonate rods? doesnt seem too familiar to me. heh. ah. what a great distraction from homework. though from most sites thats standard length.

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What about the single #35 chain link?

Weird.

Matt

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NO casters? YAY. No moving field components?

:smiley:

However, this list is probably not a complete one for obvious reasons.

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Hey! That yellow color looks awfully close to our team’s yellow color, you know… That being said, I’m inclined to agree with you. :stuck_out_tongue:

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There aren’t as many big pieces as lat year, which tells me the structure on the field is much smaller, but more complicated.

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Urhm…

Heres what the magnet looks like

http://www.mcmaster.com/catalog/110/gfx/large/5685kc1l.gif

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And the plot thickens…

The paint and the lith grease caught my attention immediately. Why ugly orange paint and lith grease?

We can (and will) only speculate.

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[quote=“M. Krass”]

  • for the 2005 competition that are not included in the kit provided by FIRST.

I added emphasis to the above quote. I am on my lunch break at work and don’t have time to find last year’s BOM release, but did it use similar language? I’m intrigued to see what sort of “robot elements” we might be required to build.[/quote]

My guess? The magnet is meant to be installed on the robot. Points will be scored for capturing/docking with a magnetic field target during autonomous.

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The magnet can be used to unlock a gate or opening device so that you can get “out” to the center. Remember the clue that was denied??? :rolleyes:

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Maybe a Magnetic Field Target with a built-in IR Beacon??? Oh, my head hurts just thinking about it.

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Bah… go right to the source Dez.

http://www.grainger.com/images/products/3G899.JPG

http://www.grainger.com/images/products/3G899.JPG

Don’t these usually come in the hardware dept at stores like K-Mart with hooks attached to them?

Kind of like this: http://www.eclipse-magnetics.co.uk/images/893i073v7.jpg

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Oh, this is going to be sweet. :slight_smile:

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I think the extensive PVC indicates that goals similar to 2004 or 2002 will be implemented again, or if not perhaps some sort of fence.