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Hi David,<br>
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I am not sure if I understood your question correctly, as it is a
bit twofold. As Erik said, and I totally agree, all teams design
their own electronics. There is no store (as far as I know) where
you could readily buy such parts conforming to our leagues
requirements.<br>
You also mention how to acquire the boards, so I guess you mean the
manufacturing process? There are multiple options. You could make
them yourself at home, but that is very cumbersome and you would be
limited to two layers. And even that is already very difficult. It
is much more common to let a professional PCB company manufacture
the boards. There are quite a lot of online stores for that, even
for small numbers and prototypes. The part placement is a different
story. Due to our size constraints in the league you will most
probably need to go for SMD parts. You can solder most of them by
hand if you have some experience and a steady hand. Even packages
down to 0.5mm pitch or no-lead packages (QFN) can be soldered by
hand or with hot air. In our team, we have recently gone for the
full service and also let a company do the placement for us.
Hand-made is cool for the first prototypes, but not fun for some 10
robots.<br>
<br>
To help the advancement of the league and to aid newcommers (or
teams redesigning) we publish our whole software, hardware,
electronics, and firmware usually after each world championship. You
can find all releases here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tigers-mannheim.de/index.php?id=29">https://tigers-mannheim.de/index.php?id=29</a><br>
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I hope that gives you a good start :)<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Andre Ryll<br>
Founder & Project Leader of<br>
TIGERs Mannheim<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 17.02.2015 um 01:35 schrieb Erik
Schluntz:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi David,
<div>I think all the teams make the boards themselves.
<div>Has anyone opensourced their schematics? RFC Cambridge is
also in the middle of an electronics redesign, and that
could be helpful :)</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:02 PM,
Sheynkman, David <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div dir="ltr">Hello there. I understand that to power the
robots and to control the motors, we need a control board
which is where the power and electric components are.
I've seen multiple examples of the boards from different
websites and the electrical circuits that were made.
however, my issue is that I don't know where to acquire
these boards from. Did the teams make it themselves or
were they purchased from somewhere? Thank you very much.</div>
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