[s_forbes]

Very nice! It's great to see creative designs that use materials in clever ways.

I don't know about the strength of wood as compaired to something like aluminum 1/8" box extrusion that everyone uses, but I'd guess that it's a better material for the base frame. Wood has the wonderful property that it doesn't get dented if you hit it really hard; it flexes and then returns to it's original shape. It makes sense to me to use something like wood for the drivebase, which gets beaten around a lot during competition.

That's why we use fiberglass extrusion; it can take a beating and won't get bent!