Thread: Kit Chassis
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Re: Kit Chassis

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Originally Posted by Karthik View Post
http://www.simbotics.org/resources/kitbot

You'll find everything you need on this page, if you choose to go with this design.
This is exactly what we have built, and have been playing with for the last week. Our team went to a work shop after the kickoff and had the robot mostly assembled. It took us a couple days after that to figure out that our programming was not working because the connector on the cable to the sidecar was on backwards. We only are powering the middle wheels until we decide whether the base is wide or long. Then we will cut the rest of the chain.

Instead of designing a new chassis, I tell the chassis team what everyone was saying, that it is not worth designing a chassis because we do not know about chassis design. Instead I will have them work on the BAD (Ball Acquisition Device), and consider the two chassis and just making small modifications where ever we need.

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