pic: Team 2068 2014 competition chassis

[AustinSchuh]

Originally Posted by MetalJacket

You said we came close to your frame - is it just something we did differently or did you have something in mind that could be improved that I could pass along to my team for next year? (There's always room for improvement, I'm sure)

Since you asked. We have had our front and back frame rails bend under hard impacts. If you bend another small flange off of the top flange out there, that will add a bit of strength. We also put a couple ribs in the tubes to give us a nice solid contact point for superstructure mounting and to add some stiffness. Sounds like you didn't need them if things held up well this year, which is great.

Some of the finer touches are to design in the PEM nuts into the belly pan for mounting electronics, the PD board, and to design in the battery box. Those take a while, but the end result is magical.