Drive train help.

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So me and a group of friends are planning to build a drive base over the summer meant really only for bashing like you would an rc car and mabey even putting a Frisbee shooter on it. We have a few questions though.

1. We had wanted to use wood for the frame as it is cheap and easy to obtain. We had planned to use either 4x1" or 3x1" wood boards as the plates with the axles going through them. we would use 3x1" wood as cross members if we go with the 3x1" drive plates and 2x4" if we go with the 4x1"(yes I know 2x4's are actually smaller). Our question is this ok for a drive base or should we go for an aluminum based drive base? The tools we have to use are a miter saw, bench top drill press and I can obtain whatever bits we would need. The drive base would use 6 either 8" or 6" pneumatic wheels and we intend to cad the whole thing before we build it.

2. Should we use a receiver and transceiver out of an rc car or would it be a better idea to use something like an arduino. We can do both we just want to hear what the CD community's has to say about these options.

Thank you