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Originally Posted by lemiant
We plan to break students into groups of 5 and guide them in producing a rolling chassis. This will result in us building 6 chassis's and a single drag and drop control system.
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Originally Posted by dtengineering
Perhaps rather than building six chassis, what you might want to consider is building just two or three robots and diverting some of the time and energy into building a few virtual chassis using Autodesk Inventor (or similar modelling software).
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On our team, not everyone builds the chassis. Some of them wire the chassis, some of them program the controller, build bumpers, build game pieces, and still others work on the manipulator. And so on.
Rather than try to teach everyone one of the skills needed to be successful, perhaps you should teach smaller groups specific skills, to fill a particular need.
Let's just say that's not going to work for your team. OK, then:
Use less expensive materials. Wooden chassis, wooden wheels, and so on, can be pretty inexpensive. Expanded Polystyrene (Styrofoam) is a light, rigid, low-cost material great for prototypes. Or, like
dtengineering wrote, build them virtually.