Prototyping Jigs

[wilsonmw04]

Greetings CD,
Blue Cheese has been struggling with effective prototyping over the past few years. We came up with a few simple, well, for a lack of a better word ‘jigs.’ These jigs help us determine general geometry of common robotics tasks: shooting balls, intaking objects, and this year; launching notes. Remember the Greyt shooter from a few years ago? yeah, something like that.

We have been working with two of our jigs this week: intake

FRC 1086 Blue Cheese Intake Jig test

Onshape Link

note: if you are going to recreate this, we would suggest offset the bottom row’s distance from the ground a tad more than we did. With the distance as it is, its a bit difficult to get the notes to list up off the floor.

Shooter

FRC Blue Cheese Horizontal Shooting Rig

OnShape Link

What I love about these items is that we can use them, flat pack them for the season and pull them out again when needed. These will get many many cycles of use.

I hope folks find these useful.

[FinIce]

That’s not blue cheese, that’s swiss cheese.

Kinda wish we did something similar to the first with all the holes and a large thing of metal, as we used some laser cut wood and that warped.