US FIRST Robotics Competition teams use Autodesk Inventor Professional software to "conceptualize, visualize, digitally prototype, and analyze" (US FIRST) their robot design before actual construction.
Submitted by andrewszatkowski on Sun, 2010-02-07 14:46
This is my second year with the team. My son joined BERT as a freshman in 2009 and I hung around and helped out where ever I could. The opportunity came up at the end of the 2009-2010 season for some new folks to run the team. Although I hadn't even entertained the thought of taking it over, I was strongly convinced to do this by the former leadership. So now I am an advisor along with Scott Tracy. It is very rewarding helping out the students. It's great to see them come up with ideas when given a task and I'm looking forward to see what we come up with for the 2010-2011 competiton.
Submitted by andrewszatkowski on Sun, 2010-02-07 14:12
It's exciting to bring a "hands-on" educational experience to our students. They also educate us in many ways. The USFIRST robotics program fortifies the values of science and technology in every participant whether a student or mentor.
Why I joined BERT:
I like finding out how machines work, and my parents thought it was a good idea to join this club.
What committees I have been on:
Inventor
Why I joined BERT:
i joined bert because i like invening new things and like computer programming
What committees I have been on:
Inventor
Why I joined BERT:
Peer pressure! In a good way, though. Older siblings were on the team and it seemed like a great time.
What committees I have been on:
Inventor
What committees I have been on:
Safety
Submitted by TedG on Tue, 2011-03-01 09:17
We entered our submission to the Autodesk website last night (woo hoo)! Thanks to everyone involved who helped to design and/or create the parts of the final model. It's quite a process. Autodesk likes to see how the project proceeded from concept to final design, and the use of Inventor software to help with the design process and to solve problems. We explained to Autodesk how we as a team came up with several concepts and ideas for our robot right after kick off, and within the first two weeks and a plywood prototype, came up with what was to become our final design.
Submitted by TedG on Mon, 2011-02-14 14:05
We are continuing to make slow and steady progress. This week's agenda: Finish installing and wiring the motors that drive the arm and claw. We have one installed and checked, and two others will be on real soon (operational by Tuesday or Wednesday we hope). We're finding we need to adjust or add to the brackets that connect the motors to the frame, to add to the stability of the motors while operating the arm and claw.
The mini-bot works awesome and we have a deployment design ready to go when the arm motors are fully installed.
Submitted by robotics_admin on Thu, 2011-02-10 17:00
Submitted by TedG on Mon, 2011-02-07 13:28
Week 4 has come to a close, we're making steady progress. The bumpers have been completely done since last week, both sets, complete with mounting hardware and painted numbers. We've been test-driving the robot and making adjustments to the drive system. We have all the arm pieces fabricated and have been putting on the sprokets, chains and other hardware. We're machining motor/gearbox mounts and other hardware and should have the lower arm running early this week, and the whole arm and claw running by the end of the week.
Submitted by TedG on Mon, 2011-01-31 09:07
Just letting you know what's been going on in the BERT world...
We just finished Week number 3! We're half way there.
The Mini-Bot prototype is almost done, the plan is to test it out and make adjustments this week and have the finished Mini-Bot by the end of
the week.
The Host-Bot has the drive system on, and was being driven/tested this weekend, it was pretty awesome.
