[z_beeblebrox]

We built it today!

A photo, as promised:

Anyone want some small wood disks?

We've been generally satisfied with our results. The chassis is lightweight and extremely strong and stiff; it survived being jumped on, dropped and pounded with no damage. In total, it took about 4 hours of laser time. Hopefully, we'll get it running over the next couple of weeks, as we replace a few parts on which we made mistakes and receive the stuff we ordered from Vex.

However, I'll wait a little on releasing the CAD; we caught a few bugs I'd still like to fix.

Edit: It's also very inexpensive to produce; each chassis takes about $30 of wood and $10 of hardware, not including powertrain components, compared to $189 for an AM14U frame or other COTS or custom options.