Nine Team Illusion members gathered together to go over what we learned at the Johns Hopkins Robotics Conference on Saturday. Several students shared what they learned in various workshops on topics like CAD, JAVA and Electronics.
On Monday evening College Mentor Eli Barnett introduced Team Illusion to the CAD program called AutoDesk Inventor, available for free through AutoDesk. He showed us how to build, extrude and constrain basic parts that we would use on a robot. Eli told us that many of the intricate parts that we would have to use to build a robot are available for download from the parts manufacturer's websites. This will avoid us having to "recreate the wheel".
Each student will need to download the program on their computers so that they can learn to use it at home. They may find the files to download here at http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/inventor-professional . Once there please sign up for a free 3 year account and then choose the computer operating system you are on and then click on download. Additional information and links to tutorials are located at http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/cad-design-and-animation .
On Monday evening College Mentor Eli Barnett introduced Team Illusion to the CAD program called AutoDesk Inventor, available for free through AutoDesk. He showed us how to build, extrude and constrain basic parts that we would use on a robot. Eli told us that many of the intricate parts that we would have to use to build a robot are available for download from the parts manufacturer's websites. This will avoid us having to "recreate the wheel".
Each student will need to download the program on their computers so that they can learn to use it at home. They may find the files to download here at http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/inventor-professional . Once there please sign up for a free 3 year account and then choose the computer operating system you are on and then click on download. Additional information and links to tutorials are located at http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/cad-design-and-animation .