While out and about, I was thinking about the frame of the robot and how I wanted to construct things. I want the body to be light and strong, so I am going to build as much as I can out of aluminum and 3D printed parts. The question that came to my mind is how I plan on connecting everything.

I weighed the options, you can bolt things together. Spend a lot of time drilling and tapping holes. Screws could possibly be used. Brazing is also an option but I didn't want to mess with that.

Enter the pop rivet gun. Nuts and bolts are fine, but for a fast and cheap solution, I think I will use rivets to join aluminum components where the parts are not to move. The gun itself was 20 dollars and 120 rivets was just a few dollars more.

In other news: I decided to name the new OS "Squirrel".

Should be fun :)