Sheet Metal vs KitBot

[Rob Stehlik]

Originally Posted by yarden.saa

I just want to open your eyes to what can be done with the kit bot.
the chassis in the picture is my team's (3339) chassis which is built from the C channel. We drilled holes to the outer wheels shafts in the c channel.
This chassis worked very good without any problem!

Very cool! I really like this re-arrangement of the kit frame. Thanks for sharing.

[yarden.saa]

you can do what ever you want with the kit bot, you just need to think out of the box

[JVN]

Here is the Robowranger 2011 "custom sheetmetal" chassis:


It probably looks familiar.

Custom sheetmetal? Yes.
Reinventing the wheel? No.

2005 Kitbot FTW!

[sdcantrell56]

It looks like you were set up to run 6wd as well. Was that a contingency plan if the nonadrive didn't pan out or you were too close on weight?

Originally Posted by JVN

Here is the Robowranger 2011 "custom sheetmetal" chassis:


It probably looks familiar.

Custom sheetmetal? Yes.
Reinventing the wheel? No.

2005 Kitbot FTW!

[JVN]

Originally Posted by sdcantrell56

It looks like you were set up to run 6wd as well. Was that a contingency plan if the nonadrive didn't pan out or you were too close on weight?

I threw the tabs on for versatility reasons. We figured for the weight of 4 tabs we would now have the ability to switch to a 6WD if the game needed it.

We're very happy with our "Butterfly Drive" setup. We'd be happy to run this configuration again!

-John

[sdcantrell56]

That's what I figured. It's a really clean frame layout and your nona/butterfly/whatever-crazy-drive-next-year certainly inspired a ton of teams this season.

Originally Posted by JVN

I threw the tabs on for versatility reasons. We figured for the weight of 4 tabs we would now have the ability to switch to a 6WD if the game needed it.

We're very happy with our "Butterfly Drive" setup. We'd be happy to run this configuration again!

-John