Robot Chassis

[BJC]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

Hello FLL community,

I have a community discussion point, which I'm interested in hearing other teams' opinions about.

Does your team design their own robot chassis each year? Or re-use and tweak the same one every year? Or, does your team use an already designed chassis found online or elsewhere?

The year and the past our team is using a chassis design we found online to start with, to focus on attachments, programming, and any minor modifications we might need to make to the chassis.

What do you do, what are your opinions FLL community?

Thanks,

-q

I use to be in FLL and now help out a team in my area so I have some experience. I have always built a new drivetrain -- it's part of the process. This shouldn't be a big deal because legos are so easy to take apart and put togeather; you can try multible configurations in under an hour. This allows you to place the third motor where you need it, make your robot skinny or wide, etc to best fit the game challenge.

If you do build an origional drivetrain I suggest trying smaller wheels and supporting the axel on both sides of the wheel. That'll will give you a very reliable configuration.

Regards, Bryan

[Qbranch]

Originally Posted by BJC

I use to be in FLL and now help out a team in my area so I have some experience. I have always built a new drivetrain -- it's part of the process. This shouldn't be a big deal because legos are so easy to take apart and put togeather; you can try multible configurations in under an hour. This allows you to place the third motor where you need it, make your robot skinny or wide, etc to best fit the game challenge.

If you do build an origional drivetrain I suggest trying smaller wheels and supporting the axel on both sides of the wheel. That'll will give you a very reliable configuration.

Regards, Bryan

Thanks for the thoughts, Bryan. And I'm totally using your signature quote for something.

-q