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Originally Posted by BrendanB
I apologize for the double post.
That's a very unique design you have their but unique designs are good! Exploring something new is a fun experience.
Before you settle on one style of drivebase, would you care to explain how your team decided that building a WCD style base was the right ones for you? What type of advantages do you see in building one? What are your design criteria(s) such as lightest, simplest, ease to build, ease to swap out parts, space efficient, etc.
Our team listed out what we wanted to see in a drivebase separate from a certain type of base and in the end we came up with a very decent solution that was extremely easy for us to build based on our immediate resources, was highly reliable considering it hasn't broken since we assembled it and put it through 6 competitions, and highly competitive as it gave is a good high speed our driver could control coupled with nice traction wheels and low gear for pushing through defenders.
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Thanks for the reply!
We're not quite done deciding, but we really liked how the west coast robots performed at the events we were at. We have fairly good machining resources, so it seemed like a logical step up from our KoP drive this year.
As for my design, after what I have seen in this thread, I have gone supports crazy. I grossly overestimated the amount of structural elements I need, as well as the fact that steel may be way overboard. I'm working on a new design that will feature aluminum. Are there any other changes you could reccomend?
Thanks,
daliberator