Team 1527 Official Chassis Design!!!!

[cdennisxlx2]

We still don't have a arm design in CAD but should come along sometime in the next day or so but here is our official design for the chassis and electrical/pneumatic placement (at least for the most part).

Tell me what you guys think :)

http://robo.xlx2.com/08cad/1527newchas1sm.jpg (http://robo.xlx2.com/08cad/1527newchas1.jpg)
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[team1203 4life]

that is hot design what kind of wheels aree you using

[cdennisxlx2]

we are milling our own 4in ones

[burkey_turkey]

i love how the electronics and transmissions fit together as to waste no space. That shows excellent communication between design groups that i know my team wished we had. Nice setup, very space efficient. I'm anxious to see what you guys put on top of it now ;-)

[beemgruem]

I like your design it is cool to see everything compact. I really like the speed controlers near the motor, you guys save lots of space for the front part. But if you put all the victors in one side, won't it be hard to connect the other side's motor?? And I could not see the battary place, too. Maybe I need to look closer:) Anyway..

I like it so much..

Hope to see your build chasis's pictures soon:)

~Begum~

[cdennisxlx2]

there are actually 8 victors in the drawing 4 on each side, we are taking 2 off since we wont be using 8. The battery is laying down in the back behind the electrical box that the victors are mounted on. Glad you liked our drawing :) the arm will be drawn soon :)

[beemgruem]

Oohh CooL!! YOu guys must have worked on this really hard:) It looks so pretty and it looks like long hours' job:)

Congratulations :) I really liked it and never though like that :)
(Out team strategy is little different so it would not work for us, if I had thought like you guys:) hehe)

~Begum~

[GUI]

What do you expect it to weigh? What are the side panels made of (I assume aluminum, but how thick?) And am I correct in assuming you are using the toughboxes? It looks like a solid design, with plenty or room for a manipulator.

[cdennisxlx2]

lol, well its a good way to teach students how to used inventor, this is a composite of 3 groups different ideas and drawings, so it gets done fast and makes the first week of build fun for the computer groups

[cdennisxlx2]

What do you expect it to weigh? What are the side panels made of (I assume aluminum, but how thick?) And am I correct in assuming you are using the toughboxes? It looks like a solid design, with plenty or room for a manipulator.

the walls are going to be milled to 1/8th in, and accually we arnt using the toughboxes, we have a 2 speed transmission we designed and are making but the drawings were done in solidworks and not inventor so we couldn't put them in the inventor drawing correctly so we just used the toughbox drawing. we may end up cheese holeing the chassis in a design for weight but we shall see when we get there :)

[DonRotolo]

Are you concerned about turning with 6 wheels?

[LordFrz]

Are you concerned about turning with 6 wheels?


If all wheels are powered then there should be no problem with the turning.

[cdennisxlx2]

we are not concerned at all, we are dropping the middle wheels about 1/4" from the others

[Durza16]

Aren't you worried about how robust it is?

couldn't you damage the controller if a trackball falls?

[cdennisxlx2]

this is just a chassis, it doesn't include the manipulator or our protection covering (we were thinking about a dome structure for protection but we haven't looked at any of that yet, we probably wont worry about it till later)

[Durza16]

the dome would look cool

[cobrawanabe1699]

nice design. Is it copyrighted? jmya

[cdennisxlx2]

lol, well the drawing is copyrighted but the design really isn't as i think there are teams that use this type of design every year

[Iboshi2]

I like the compact nature of the design. Great job.