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Originally Posted by Starke
Looks great! Keep up the good work!
p.s. What happened to the trademark custom chassis? 
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The AM kit chassis was just too alluring this year... we decided it's not worth designing our own chassis we can buy one off the shelf with excellent quality and save a week of building. I'd buy it again, this thing is awesome!
If all goes according to current designs, there won't be any fiberglass on this years robot.
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Originally Posted by Billfred
That really is a clean wiring job!
I'm wondering what, if anything, changed on the drivetrain. If the gearing and pulleys are kit, that setup would be around walking speed the way I'm reading the JVN spreadsheet. Easy to control, but slow even for a floor-loading shooter design that doesn't have to go cross-court. Or is there some science I'm missing?
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Internals have been swapped for the 19/45 tooth gear combo from andymark to compensate for the wheel size, putting us around 10ft/sec. Still a tad slow, but a lower gear like this is nicer to our motors and electronics and won't drain our batteries like crazy. We were over-geared last year and our acceleration/batteries really suffered.
8 Talons, 5 Victors (for lack of more Talons), and 2 Spikes. Lots of motors on this year's bot!