What teams have desgined a 6 wheel drive system?

[Wayne C.]

Originally Posted by Rich Kressly

I'm not sure if Team 25 has Inventor files, but they graciously shared their 2003 Evil Machine design with Team 103 who used it on their 2004 bot Monkey Business. Team 103 used only four wheels, but adding the additional two is no problem at all (In fact 103 had two more wheels on just two weeks before shipping). The Team 103 version of the Team 25 drive system is well documented in the 2004 Inventor Website found here:
http://inventor.cybersonics.org

Here are some pics of the drive system of the team 25 recent six wheeled modular monsters. The whole robot pic is the 2002 robot Silver Scorpion- that made it to the final 4 in Nats. The modular drive pic is from Evil Machine 1- the 2003 finalist. As we've learned we have made the drives modular so they can be detached as a unit and replaced quickly. The kids strip them down and reassemble them like a soldier does with a rifle. The drives have never failed- never. They are now obsolete and the next generation will be a little faster and a little more powerful, at least according to prototypes. We have some new ideas up our sleeves. ; )
WC