1/4" Plywood
2x4s
PVC Pipe
1.125" hole saw
A way to hook a cordless drill to a 1/2" Hex shaft
Electrical tape for quick hex shaft spacers
An assortment of squish and other wheels
Brushed motors like cims, mini cims, bag motors so you dont need to program anything
There are a lot of existing threads on tools, techniques, and ecosystems team have developed with 3D printed parts to make prototype assembly and testign faster.
[Proto System Assembly(3)]
Onshape Document
After recently coming into possession of a laser cutter, I thought id make a system for prototyping intakes to test it out.
I wanted to be able to easily change between bumper heights. Currently its only a matter of swapping the single 3D printed standoff block to change the height of the bumper, no need to mess with bolt lengths or multiple spacers. The Onshape document is setup to generate these spacers for arbitrary bumper heights between 1/4" …
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We have been working on creating a system to allow us to quickly and easily design mechanisms that let us prototype game tasks.
What we have come up with is called “Protopipe”. It’s an inexpensive system that lets you 3D print connectors for 1/2" PVC to easily build prototypes, test them, and iterate them. We haven’t run it through a season yet so there is almost certainly room for improvement but we thought other teams might like to use it as well.
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A good complement to LAD is CAD (Cardboard Aided Design). We used it to prototype several iterations of the passive Gear mechanism in 2017 in a couple of hours. We used the last version as patterns to cut the polycarb for the final version.
This
One thing we did way back in the day when 5030 was still hand tools for everything but we still had cass of all our robots.
make it easier to catch mistakes or known packaging limitations.
print out to scale designs that kids can use as a “cookie cutter”, for where they need to cut or drill.
still help with easier reiteration, 3D printing or figuring how to adjust/build in our limits.
We had spent 2014-2016 building all by hand and didn’t get access to a Cnc until 2017 and even still we had m…
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