Category: 2012

Blog Hiatus Ends.

I have gotten a few emails over the last couple weeks which basically say. I have been traveling like crazy. As Sr. Product Engineer for Innovation First Labs, I am part of all aspects of Toy development. As part of that responsibility I need to be at our manufacturers in china many times each year.
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Sheet metal MFG

A few of years ago before I was at IFI, this video was made to show how parts are made for our robots. We are fortunate to have such a resource and have adapted many different processes for robot design specifically around these abilities (such as stacked plate aluminum gears) If you haven’t seen it
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148 Teaser

Hey check out this part from team 148’s 2012 robot. Isn’t it pretty! I wonder what is does? Does it reveal that super secret feature which will give us an advantage? In actuality this tells you nothing about our robot, except that it will be black and made from sheet metal. Just like most teasers
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Team Resources

I had the opportunity a few days ago to spend some time with some long time friends team 340 in Rochester NY.  We got into a conversation about building to your team’s resources and how that can effect how you interpret what is important about the game. I have been fortunate in my 11 years with FIRST
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