I noticed the Kit bot chassis suffered from rigidity problems at first. Then I read the instructions and saw that the other bits of aluminum where stiffeners
, and they did help considerably. The kit bot chassis is great for rookie teams, and veteran teams alike looking to get ahead in the production phase. We built the kit bot in a few hours and handed it to the programmers so that they could begin to wire and program the robot for testing. They where able to test the camera's tracking ability, and other important features. It also kept the programmers out of our hair...for a while. Eventually they wanted to know things like, "Are we gonna need a pot on that, are we going to need to limit the movement with programming". Programmers..can't live with em, and you can't live with out em. We ended up using 3x1 extruded aluminum box tubing. All in all out chassis turned out pretty good, and very robust.