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FHS ROBOTICS and REALIZE

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Realize is a sponsor of the Tiger Dynasty Robotics Club at Fishers High School. Tiger Dynasty’s focus is developing student’s skills in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, marketing, and design while also developing leadership and communication skills that students will carry with them into college and their professional lives. The team is committed to maintaining a student leadership structure of the team to help foster leadership opportunities for the students. The robotics team at FHS fosters an environment for students to truly discover their career interests with expert mentors from the fields to guide them along their way. Team 5010 provide chances for the students of Fishers High School to practice, apply, and see in action the science and math the students learn every day at school. It provides students reason to continue learning and pursue fields that they are interested in.  Tiger Dynasty helps guide and show students through the complete process from the conception of ideas to making their ideas a reality, showing them of what they are truly capable of doing.

 

We talked with Alex Chrisman from the team to get an update on what is going on with FHS Robotics.

 

“We operate as a part of the FIRST (For the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) organization under the FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) program. As a team, we compete head-to-head against high schools from all around the state and even the world. Every year, NASA and Disney partner up with the FIRST program to come up with a game for our robots to compete in. From there, we have 6 weeks to build a robot from scratch to compete in these competitions.”

 

 

Realize is a proud sponsor of FHS Robotics by way of providing Somos NeXt parts which Alex states were an integral part of the drive train they created.

 

 

“The drive train design we desired would not had been possible without the help of Realize Inc. This year, the game will be particularly brutal on robots.  It involves a lot of traversing over uneven ground, something which a standard set of wheels would not had been able to handle. We decided this year to design a tank tread drive train with suspension from the ground up. The robotics supplier where we typically get our parts does carry a pair of treads, but they were priced at nearly $200 a piece. Instead, we decided to go with a timing belt like you would find on your car, saving us nearly $300 alone. From there, we designed a system around the belt to fit our needs. Because we were doing a 100% custom drive train, many of the parts we would need to get the robot to work did not exist. Thankfully, Realize Inc. was able to help us out. Realize was able to print out our custom parts to fit the track of our desire. These parts comprise of about 90% of both the suspension and tension system. Without those parts, our team would not had been able to complete this drive train of our desire.”

 

 

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The Realize Photo of the Week

The Realize team visited the Purdue campus this morning. President Todd Reese and Sales Representative Jeff Costin were waxing philisophical about 3D Printing; Prototyping 101! Prototyping, additive manufacturing, and all the other Rapid Prototyping information you could ask for. Thanks to those that attended!

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The Realize BB8 Gift

Sometimes the things we do can expand out in ways never imagined. In this case, a video about a project we worked on lead us to a brave young man that is fighting a difficult battle everyday.

After posting the videos and stories about our Star Wars BB8 3D Printing project, our President(Todd Reese) was contacted with a special request. Our video about the creation of the prototype was shared with a courageous young man named Gavin and he was thrilled that we worked on the BB8 project, as he is a huge Star Wars fan. Sadly, he has been very ill recently and didn’t get to see the new movie. In some small way watching our video helped perk him up a bit. He has a disease called Mitochondrial Disease which is now causing him to have a variety of side effects and other illnesses. The request was; if they were to send us a mini BB8 robot, would the Realize team sign it for him. Of course we were thrilled that, in some small way, we could make Gavin smile and made a plan to do as much as we could.

Gavin watching the Realize BB8 video.

Gavin watching the Realize BB8 video.

We decided to 3D Print him an X-wing fighter, light saber & included some other goodies too.

The goods

The goods

Another local business owner found out about this story and was kind enough to contact us and include some of her products customized just for Gavin. The owner of Sweet Home Cupcakes, Nazarine Terstegge, donated BB8 cake pops and decorated some pretzel logs to look like light sabers for him. Thanks for your kindness!

Nazerine from Sweet Home Cupcakes.

 

The best part.

The best part.

Here is a description about the disease from Gavin’s grandmother.

 

“When Gavin was diagnosed, it was rare. The more research they do on it, the more they connect it with other auto immune, and genetic diseases. Gavin’s started with tremors that affected his whole body. He has several kinds of seizures, sometimes several a day. It has affected his brain and his speech. His thought process is very slow. One of the main things that has affected Gavin, is he has no energy. He is in a wheelchair. The chair isn’t needed in the house. He has been in Hospice care for 2 years. Something as simple as the flu can kill him. He’s a fighter, and is a very brave little guy.”

 

To learn more about this disease and how you can help:

Gavin’s Facebook page  & More information on the disease

We wish Gavin many more days filled with smiles and joy. May the force be with you Gavin.

BB8 for Gavin

BB8 for Gavin

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Realize 3D Printed Star Wars Project

The Realize, Inc. Star Wars Project

Realize was thrilled to take part in the creation of a 3D Printed version of the BB8 Droid from Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens. The prototype was used to create the display models of BB8 which were in stores across the country for Force Friday. This is the story of how we received the project and how we decided to make a fully realized version for ourselves. Enjoy and may the force be with you!

 

 

Music by Brian Cazzell
Thanks to the Realize team for all of their hard work and enthusiasm on this exciting project.

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Realize, Inc. : RealFastQuotes! Video

Realize would like to show you how fast and easy it is to get a quote for your next project. RealFastQuotes! is our custom quoting software enabling clients to instantly quote SLA projects and place orders on their own.

 

 

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