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Re: Vex Versachassis

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Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence View Post
In my humble opinion, the VersaChassis is going to revolutionize FRC. It's cheap, lightweight, reliable, and the best part, will save teams A BUNCH of time during the build season. I know RC and the crew behind this put a lot of thought into making it easy and quick to assemble, and because of this a single person can put it together in half a day, a small team of people could put one together in a few hours. I've spent a lot of my time researching powerful drivetrains the past 4 years, and I can honestly say this is up to par with every custom drive I've seen. So in summation, you get a powerful drivetrain that can compete at the level of the best drivetrains in California (because those are where the best drivetrains are from ), and you can save time during the build season by having it assembled extremely quickly. Looking at the capabilities of this chassis, I'd say any team, rookie or pro, who doesn't use the VersaChassis is going to be at a disadvantage in 2014 compared to everyone else, solely because of the time saved that can be used to work on scoring mechanisms.
We made and used a chassis related to the VersaChassis this past year (I'm kinda wondering if that's where some of the idea came from), and I'll just say I LOVED it. This is a great concept to allow you to modify your design as you build from a base chassis with or without a nice shop at your team's disposal. I've found it so valuable, that this is something that I'm bringing to the team I'm mentoring this year.
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