[Matt Reiland]

Tytus, I like your designs, they look great on the computer. But as you stated, they may be more fancy than required. If a machinist looked at the design, I am 100 percent sure he would probably want to simplify the little supporting rods with maybe 2 vertical plates, that way you can easily assemble the thing without having to weld everything perfectly and have it all still parallel (after the warping of the aluminum during welding). We did something like this 2 years ago but the modules were powered instead of the bevel gearset. For your next challenge think about making your design easy to service. After studying Wildstang, you can see the importance of 'Modules' as your robot gets more complex. Nothing should take longer than 5 - 10 minutes to swap out on a first robot.