Hexagon / Octagon frame with Swerve

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Nemo

I thought a main benefit of octagons was to make the robot bigger. Allow wider collectors and such.

We used an octagon frame last year to fit our shooter due to our design concept requiring our robot frame to have some extra width in the center. We didn't realize the benefit of getting out of friction pins until later in the season when teams started asking us how our anti-tbone bumpers were working.

You can pickup a little bit of room for widening a collector by doing something similar to this which is what 469 had this past year. If you play around with geometry in the corners you can gain some room but you need to decide if its worth the effort or if its an aspect of your design that needs to be reconsidered.