Thread: FRC T-bone-ing and Hexagonal drive
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Re: FRC T-bone-ing and Hexagonal drive
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Originally Posted by cadandcookies View Post
Not sure I'd qualify x009 as something "easy" for many or most teams to make. Good sheet metal fabrication is hard to find in a good deal of places around the country, and the design knowledge necessary is a whole other animal.

Bottom line is hex adds complexity. In some cases it might not add much, but if you're going to get tripped up on that you should probably be doing KOP or a transition drivetrain like VersaChassis anyways.
You're not wrong but I don't think it would be too hard to adapt a standard WCD or kit bot chassis to give the sides a slight hex shape but exactly how hard depends on, as you said, the machining resources of the team and how much the side sticks out. The other main problem is it makes bumpers that much more complicated...
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