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Re: Newly Developed Chassis

Well, we've made our chassis out of plywood for god knows how long (way before my rookie year, probably from 2002). It has been reliable for us, with the Europly we use tending to maintain strength and flexibility. But hardwood... hmmm... gonna have to check that for next year...
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Originally Posted by Matt C View Post
Wood is an excellent material for a robot chassis, just ask Team 173 (Rage).
Yeah, we got the whole wood chassis idea from RAGE; they were something of a parent team to us a few years back. We've built a RAGE chassis for a few years (We really are trying to phase out with some creative ideas, though. Not saying that those RAGE chassis don't work great, it's just about time we tried something new, I think.)