One hour Chassis?
 

Did anyone actualy get their chassis up and running in 1 hour.... i dont mean like just a test bot to run around on the field but the actual chassis for your final robot...

It might not have been up in an hour, but it was a heck of a lot easier for rookies/vets to assemble a drivable frame this year than in previous ones. Kudos to FIRST.

We're still designing ours :D

It was really close to an hour and really fast this year especially since we had the right materials to use.

We are using 80/20 and we have bolted together our drive frame, havent done much else though... By Sunday, we hope for a rolling base.

Cory

You mean the cookie-cutter chassis??? Ummm...Yeah we're using that.... Sure we are!!! :D Yeah an hour.... Yeah that was all it took....:p

It depends on what you count as structure and what you count as add-on. Our team was fairly quick about making the basic structure, but we're still adding stuff to it. Where did you get the idea about one hour Angry Dwarf? Did your team get it made in an hour? Or were you just speculating

actually, our drive train this year is most complicated one we've ever built (well, maybe not, but its right up there).

well, we dont really know how long our chassis will take to build, especially since we dont have ANY of our materials in yet..:( but we do have it all designed out in CAD so as soon as we do get them in, hopefuly within the next day or two, we will most likely have it done within another couple days if not an hour..:rolleyes:

We have out frame bolted together and will probably get it welded tomorrow. We have not even started on the Drive Train.

I think the question was about the basic chassis that FIRST built durring kickoff from parts in the kit. They also said they had done about 3 hours of prepatory work.

My team did nothing of the sort. :)



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it took us about 3-4 hours. We made ours out of wood instead of using the metal they gave us. That was with about 3 people working on it though...

our team finaly got most everything done in CAD this week...still working out the details and fitting in all the FUFU stuff...

I think the parts they gave us in the kit are great for rookies but it seems that most of the older teams are still doing their own thing.

I think if our team sat down and built the frame all in one go, it would probably be close to an hour.

But, we're doing it in bits and pieces (not even all of it is designed).

We build the frame to support the components of the bot...Not all the components are done yet, so neither is the frame.

It might be possible to assemble a frame in 1 hour if you used the chassis material that FIRST provided. A team we are working with used the stuff that FIRST gave in the KITS, and it took them a lot longer. It took my team a good 2 weeks....We built 1...decided to change it and then built another. Which we finished this week.

Our bot was rolling by the end of week two and driving by last thursday. We used one of the aluminum tube and other 1/4" aluminum sheets. I hope we can stay under weight though, our frame and drivetrain weigh about 60 pounds.

It is pretty sweet, we also got our full size ramp on wednesday so we got a chance to drive over a couple times. One of our joysticks calibration won't work so we have to get FIRST to get us a new one.

We start work on our arms tommorow. This has been our 4th or 5th idea for our arms and I hope we stick with it. GO RAIDERS!

A very basic chassis that takes nothing into consideration can be done pretty easily, but a chassis that is suitable for fitting all the stuff that needs to be on the robot takes much longer.

The Kickoff Time
 

I think that it took the engineers at the kickoff a lot longer than an hour.

I think they came in with someparts pre done, along with an extensive know-how of the parts and how to build it quickly.

They said they had some holes pre-drilled. I still think that they knew how to build it before hand. I think that it takes longer for us to build the robots because we did not know the parts, and had to actually take the time to work with it and figure it out.

Hey on the other hand, at the kickoff all the bots didn't work anyway. LOL

Good Luck Every1

-Greg The Great

I still think that "Full Chassis In One Hour" thing is flaud.

It takes me 1 hour to drill two holes, as my teacher-moderator said.

If you are using 80/20 or Bosch extrusion, you can very easily put together a frame in one hour. However, cutting the extrusion, and milling the ends (helps make it perfectly square) takes a lot longer. Update on our status: As of Thursday, we had the bas level and two wheels mounted. As of today: we have the base level and four wheels mounted... Shows our progress eh:confused:

Cory

We had to rebuild our chassis because the original one had been welded incorrectly. It took four hours for 3 programmers to cut and drill it.

our chassie isn't exactly the same as the cookie cutter one, but it still took us 4 hours and we are less than half done.

Re: One hour Chassis?
 

NOT IN A HOUR, but its together...How bout u? U got it up in a hour??

The bit that the wheels actually attach to was done in an hour or two . . . but the actual stuff supporting everything is built into other systems so much that the people building those systems were given the additional task of designing the chasis components that would support their system. So . . . the chassis was the last thing to go together, really, and took a lot more than an hour.