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Re: Community/Open Source Chassis Project
I believe the open source chassis would be much more effective if it utilized the kit frame.
The kit frame doesn't out of the box offer a decent 6 wheel, if you guys just make the simplest method of making a 6wd with the KOP frame, people will probably actually use it. Pretty much, use all COTS parts, make some assembly and exploded drawings with complete BOMs, and release that. Dawgma did that a few years back for a non-KOP base (I believe it was the "sub $1k drivetrain").
Sorry to rain on the parade, but a team capable of making the kinds of bases you describe probably don't need or don't want to download a design. Now, the team that meets in a physics room and has no engineering mentors would probably actually use (and be able to use) a 6wd with the KOP frame.
Pretty much, if they have the capability, they won't want the design, and if they want the design, they probably don't have the capability.
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