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Re: pic: 4301 Current Progress

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Originally Posted by Chak View Post
I hope you will never put significant force on those omniwheels at the end, or the shaft might bend. Are you sure that it will be absolutely impossible for something to hit the omniwheels on the outside? Other robots crashing into it comes to mind.
We were only planning on extending the omni wheel bar while we were in the protected zone of the outer works, but we will definitely consider reinforcing the shaft.
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Originally Posted by fargus111111111 View Post
How are you going to get the battery out? It seems to be trapped by the electronics and that motor.
The second level of the electronics panel slides toward the front of the robot to let the battery in. This wasn't included in the CAD model for simplicity's sake.
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