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<\/a><\/p>\nGee, some aluminum rounds and a large section of steel tubing.<\/p>\n
Hmm, it really makes you wonder, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n I opted to skip the Intro to \u00c3\u00bcber-basic EE that today’s 6.01<\/a> lecture was covering in order to haunt the Central Machine Shop<\/a> for metal. The guys there are awesome, and cut me off a few pieces of aluminum round and this Seriously Hardc\u00c3\u00b8re<\/strong> steel tubing. They also remember the MIT Battlebots team. The tubing, though, is likely Hardc\u00c3\u00b8re<\/strong>-er\u00c2\u00a0 than the MITERS<\/a> lathe can handle, even with the jaws reversed. I will definitely have to get into one of the main student shops with larger machines to turn it down.<\/p>\n In the mean time, I’ll work on winding the sucker. Here’s pics from a few days ago.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nNo, this is not a prototype weapon module, despite the temptations, but rather the ingredients to the wheelmotor. Obviously the motor doesn’t require such a Seriously Hardc\u00c3\u00b8re<\/strong> outer shell, but it was the only thickness of tubing (Can something this thick be called tubing<\/em> any more?) they had in the diameter I needed. At first I wanted to get the aluminum in one large chunk, but after some discussion, they cut it into slices since 1) They have a giant bandsaw and I don’t and 2) It was on the house.<\/p>\n