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Originally Posted by Rob Stehlik
Looks solid! A couple thoughts: It looks like you have a lot of extra space to move the outer wheels further apart. This will improve stability. Also, I'm curious what's inside the big box? Is that a fancy battery holder?
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Moving the wheels sounds like a good idea to consider, we'll look into it, thanks! I believe it's currently designed like this so that it would fit a 6" wheel if we decide to go that route, I guess once we finalize what wheel we'll use we can figure that out. Also, as Ryan said the big box is a battery holder, but it's likely not the final design, just a starting point. We're considering changing the top plate to just a strip, maybe forgoing the metal altogether in favor of velcro like we did last year, we're not sure yet. This is just a one of a couple prelim designs we have.
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Originally Posted by philso
If that is your battery box, will it be easily accessible once the upper structure is installed?
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We placed the battery box there just for now with the intent of keeping the CG centered, but we're fairly sure we're going to need to move it to keep it accessible once we know what manipulators and mechanisms we're going to need on the robot. This is again just a starting point, there's a very good chance we're going to be moving it closer to the edge of the robot to make it accessible. Thanks!