Tools and Workspace

• Basic Hand Tools Video

• General Fasteners Video

• Spectrum FIRST $2000

• MIT Prototype Machining Videos

• Machine Shop Essentials: Questions and Answers

• Micro Machine Shop

• Ed’s Machining Notebook

• SendCutSend

  • Custom laser cut and CNC parts with no minimum order, handy for teams without their own equipment.

• OSH Cut

  • Sheet metal cutting and bending service popular with FRC teams.

• Fabworks

  • On-demand CNC and sheet metal fabrication, another common source for parts teams can’t machine in-house.

• FRC#469 Parts Organization System

• Spectrum What’s in the Box Blog Series

• Measuring Tool Basics Video by HAAS

• Tapping Essentials Video by HAAS

• Code Orange FRC#3476 Manufacturing Training

• CNC Routers for FRC Robotics (long CD Thread)

• OMIO CNC Tips, Tricks and Questions

  • The OMIO X8 is the default in-house CNC for a lot of FRC teams, and this running thread is the community’s accumulated manual for it - feeds and speeds, endmills, chip clearing, misting, enclosures, and fixturing.

• The Ultimate Guide to Waterjet Cutting (Desktop to Industrial)

  • Video walkthrough of waterjet cutting across the whole price range, from desktop machines a team might actually own to the industrial machines a sponsor would run a job on.

• The Ultimate Guide to Casting Your Own Robot Wheels

  • Video guide to casting custom robot wheels in house, for the times the wheel you want is not something you can buy.

• Machining without CNC

  • VEX Match Drilling Guide
  • FRC#2363 TripleHelix - Bearing Holes with the Drill Press

• CD Thread: Making parts by hand. How do you do it?