pic: First off season project

[I_AM_Clayton]

Originally Posted by Chak

Looks good. Why did you stuff wood into the vertical electronics board supports? The aluminum tubing should be strong enough to hold an electronics board, especially if you add a cross brace.
Btw, H-drive describes 5 omniwheels in a H shape, and this is not a H-drive.

We stuffed wood inside the aluminum supports to make it easy for us to attach it to the chassis, of course it could have been done a different way. (the supports sit directly on top of the chassis, we put a small metal plate across the side and drove one self tapper into the chassis and another through the aluminum and into the wood which holds the two together just fine. It definitely will hold our electronics board (which is a sheet of lexan cut into an octagon shape, the electronics are screwed and zip-tied on through the holes that are already applied to the lexan before we buy it). I've known the "H" in "H-drive" to stand for holonomic, which is why I labeled it is as an "H-drive" I apologize if I have it wrong.

Originally Posted by Christopher149

Poor man's mecanum?

Coincidentally, we actually officially named our project the "poor man's swerve drive" because of its ability to drive in any direction and because of our limited budget in which we had to go over by an amount in which will remain undisclosed

Originally Posted by asid61

Nice work! What drove your design to put electronics up top? Even if you do that, I recommend putting the battery down low to lower the center of the mass.

Our electronics captain decided to put the electronics at the top simply because the project was originally to build just a chassis. We're actually integrating a battery holder/tray/bracket (whatever you want to call it) into our cross supports, along with that we are going to cut a rectangular hole into the center of our lexan electronics board that will be large enough for the battery to slide through and down into the holder tray. The battery will sit in the middle of the robot.