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team 1155 is building our new dolly for the robot out of it. not to be elitists or anything we just needed a new dolly and ran out of the aluminum we had used on the robot

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Team 350 used the stock kitbot chassis, and we defenitly had some hard hits, as we played defense for eliminations through finals. After the match the front end was bent inwards a little, but overall it held up really well.

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I noticed the Kit bot chassis suffered from rigidity problems at first. Then I read the instructions and saw that the other bits of aluminum where stiffeners :o , and they did help considerably. The kit bot chassis is great for rookie teams, and veteran teams alike looking to get ahead in the production phase. We built the kit bot in a few hours and handed it to the programmers so that they could begin to wire and program the robot for testing. They where able to test the camera's tracking ability, and other important features. It also kept the programmers out of our hair...for a while. Eventually they wanted to know things like, "Are we gonna need a pot on that, are we going to need to limit the movement with programming". Programmers..can't live with em, and you can't live with out em. We ended up using 3x1 extruded aluminum box tubing. All in all out chassis turned out pretty good, and very robust.

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We used it a base. We welded the kitbot material and bolted our super structure to the frame. We noticed during practice that it deformed. For that reason we will bring our frame staightener to the regionals.

Pete

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I'm working on a 25lb deadblow frame straightner. :D If you forget yours, I should have mine built and ready for action in a few weeks.

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We used the KOP Chassis and Grearboxes with 2 CIM motors and it works great. We did add some 2" angle that attached through all four channels to strengthen the base of our arm and the drivetrain, but it is really strong. We are really happy witht he KOP this year.

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So all in all everyone liked JVN's chassis design?

JT
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