Team Resources
Acronyms Used in FIRST SCHOLARSHIPS!!!
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Resources for Designing a Robot:
Chief Delphi Mechanism Encyclopedia Nicole Tool & Die (manufacturing resource) A Design Guide from NASA A guide from FIRST. It has additional resources within: An Australian resource From team 2471 Team 358 has a comprehensive website, including strategy suggestions. Another resource with even more resources in it! Team 4468. This one is mostly a "what we learned by making mistakes presentation. Here's a general resource for everything. FRC Technical Resources Page A project guide for Robotics and Engineering |
Resources for Purchasing Robot Parts:
Find Robot Parts American Alloy (Located on Jordan Lane - machining) AndyMark Armabot (motion, electronics, tools) Automation Direct (everything!) B&B Manufacturing (pulleys, sprockets, belts, etc.) BaneBots (gearboxes, compliant wheels, etc.) Berg (bearings, belts/chains, couplings, etc.) Bolt Depot (fasteners) Clippard (electrical and pneumatical) Coremark Metals Cross The Road Electronics (motors, etc.) DigiKey Electronics Fastenal (nuts/bolts/etc) Grainger (extrusion, pneumatics, plastics, and lots of other stuff) Hansen Hobbies (pwm wire, LED lighting, etc.) Igus (linear slide components) Inventables (linear motion, wire, belts/pulley, CNC machines) Industrial Metal Supply CO McMaster-Carr (raw materials, tools, etc.) Motion Industries (bearings, tools, electrical, hydraulics and lots of other stuff) Mouser Electronics NextGen Robotics (heat sinks, etc.) Online Metals (supplier of custom cut metals) Plummer Industries (chassis parts, etc.) Port Plastics Powerwerx (anderson power poles, wire, etc.) REVRobotics (electronics, gearboxes, etc.) RoboPromo (bumper supplies) Robot Marketplace (assorted robot parts, "team merchandise") SDP/SI (all kinds of useful stuff to put on a robot) Skyway (wheels) Swyft Robotics (chains, belts, bearins, etc.) TAP Plastics TE Connectivity (electronics, etc.) The Thrifty Bot (bearings, elevator parts, wheels, etc.) VEXPro (all kinds of stuff) Vulcan Springs WestCoast Products (all kinds of FRC parts) 80/20 T-Slot Aluminum |