MECHANICAL LESSONS
> Mechanical Lesson #1: Intro To Mechanical
Covering FRC suppliers, materials used to build robots, and common tools to manufacture parts.
> Mechanical Lesson #2: Motor Selection
Covering common FRC motors, motor characteristics, and gear calculations.
> Mechanical Lesson #3: All About Motion
Covering the basics of motion, gearboxes, methods of power transmission, and about air cylinders.
MECHANICAL Presentation
> Intro to Mechanical, SWATposium presentation
A summary of FRC tutorial lessons, presented at SWATposium 2018. If video tutorials are more of your style, watch this presentation!
How do I improve my skills from here?
The best way to practice your new knowledge would be to build prototypes or an off-season robot with your team. However, if that is not an option, I would recommend you...
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Watch my CAD series of designing a drivetrain
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CAD your own robot! Use references from VexPro's resources or FRC robots on GrabCAD to guide your designs
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VexPro's CAD assemblies and Build Blitz are especially helpful, as it teaches you how you could design a robot easily with VexPro parts
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MECHANICAL RESOURCES
Belt Calculator
Created by West Coast Products
Use to calculate what timing belt and exact distance can be used between your needed pulleys. Input the HTD of the belt/pulley, number of teeth on your pulleys, and a rough distance between them
Gearing Documents
Created by Vicky Wang
Gearing tutorials for rotational mechanisms and intakes, elevators, and converting RPM to linear speed
Using chain
Created by Emily Adam
HOW BOLT NAMING WORKS
Created by Bolt Depot
Explaining how to use chain and the behavior of chain.
Explaining how bolt naming convention works, for imperial and metric bolts.