Drew has some good advice. It will take a long flush trim bit with a top bearing. Spiral bit is best but expensive. You could also try a mirror cut for the final pass with a non bearing bit. I think I bought one from Chinazon for less than $60. Clamp the slabs down with a gap slightly less than the bit diameter and machine both faces in one final pass taking special care to keep the router base tight to the straight edge because it will try to pull away.
It's now 2025 and we have been moved in for a few months. I mentor a high school robotics team and the new game for the season is released just after the new year. We have a few months to design, build, and program a robot before competitions. So with robotics and a five year old, there isn't much time for hobbies. I was able to mount the audio rack in the basement that will house all the electronics for the Quarters.
Northern suburb of Minneapolis - mentor for KnightKrawler Team 2052. Good luck to them at the Rocket City Regional! Based on the list of teams attending, I'm guessing they are Team 2783 - Engineers of Tomorrow?
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Northern suburb of Minneapolis - mentor for KnightKrawler Team 2052. Good luck to them at the Rocket City Regional! Based on the list of teams attending, I'm guessing they are Team 2783 - Engineers of Tomorrow?
Irondale HS? My mom's first job out of college back in the 1960's was teaching English at Mounds View.
Keep an open mind, but don't let your brain fall out.
Thanks Scott, I'll have to check the old year books and ask my Dad if the name rings a bell. She taught at Mounds View vs Irondale, correct? Small world
To provide some context, here is a finals match of this year's game challenge Reefscape. The first 15 seconds the robots move autonomously with pre-programmed code and then the remaining 2 minutes and 15 seconds are driver controlled. Teams are trying to score 4-in PVC called Coral onto the reef as well as move the green balls called algae into the net above the barge where robots will climb at the end of the match.
@silverD said:
Thanks Scott, I'll have to check the old year books and ask my Dad if the name rings a bell. She taught at Mounds View vs Irondale, correct? Small world
Correct.
Keep an open mind, but don't let your brain fall out.
You can watch the competitions live on Twitch https://m.twitch.tv/firstinspires/home
Their second tournament is in Cincinnati, pretty cool to see live in person.
The Blue Alliance is great for looking up event and team info as well as watching matches via the gameday tab. We competed in Duluth week 1 and finished quals in first, but got knocked out in playoffs.
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Drew has some good advice. It will take a long flush trim bit with a top bearing. Spiral bit is best but expensive. You could also try a mirror cut for the final pass with a non bearing bit. I think I bought one from Chinazon for less than $60. Clamp the slabs down with a gap slightly less than the bit diameter and machine both faces in one final pass taking special care to keep the router base tight to the straight edge because it will try to pull away.
I have used Unistrut screwed down to a bench top and trued using a string and a circular saw to cut a true edge before - it works well.
I've done the mirror cut with a circular saw blade. Just use a thick wide tooth blade not the thin kerf.
^ "Book-matching" grain patterns?
It's now 2025 and we have been moved in for a few months. I mentor a high school robotics team and the new game for the season is released just after the new year. We have a few months to design, build, and program a robot before competitions. So with robotics and a five year old, there isn't much time for hobbies. I was able to mount the audio rack in the basement that will house all the electronics for the Quarters.
The Quarters will replace the Google Nests in front of the windows
Whoa! Is that a Flexcore 1st floor (basement ceiling)?
Nope, plain old sheetrock.
Where do live? My buddy, Adam and his son do the robotics thing here in Louisville KY. Their first competition is in Huntsville Al, this weekend.
Northern suburb of Minneapolis - mentor for KnightKrawler Team 2052. Good luck to them at the Rocket City Regional! Based on the list of teams attending, I'm guessing they are Team 2783 - Engineers of Tomorrow?
Yup
Wish they had that stuff in late 90s early 2000s.
Wish they had robotics in the early/mid 80's... but we barely had computers back then.
Commodore 64 was my first computer exposure. I bet I was 7 or 8, and it was around '86. Good old 5.5" floppies.
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Irondale HS? My mom's first job out of college back in the 1960's was teaching English at Mounds View.
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Yep, Irondale! My dad and his siblings graduated from Mounds View in the 50s/60s. Mind if I ask her name?
Virgene (Grack) Sehlin. She and my dad got married after her first year teaching.
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Thanks Scott, I'll have to check the old year books and ask my Dad if the name rings a bell. She taught at Mounds View vs Irondale, correct? Small world
To provide some context, here is a finals match of this year's game challenge Reefscape. The first 15 seconds the robots move autonomously with pre-programmed code and then the remaining 2 minutes and 15 seconds are driver controlled. Teams are trying to score 4-in PVC called Coral onto the reef as well as move the green balls called algae into the net above the barge where robots will climb at the end of the match.
Correct.
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You can watch the competitions live on Twitch
https://m.twitch.tv/firstinspires/home
Their second tournament is in Cincinnati, pretty cool to see live in person.
How'd your alls team do?
The Blue Alliance is great for looking up event and team info as well as watching matches via the gameday tab. We competed in Duluth week 1 and finished quals in first, but got knocked out in playoffs.
Scott, I work at Mounds View and found these in the archived yearbooks.
Those are both my Mom. Great find!
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