pic: FRC488 - 80/20 Drive Train

[techtiger1]

Madison as always great cad work. I like the simplicity of the design and wish my team would try Dewalt transmissions but anyway. I do have one question I noticed you always use omni wheels up front why ? I don't have an issue with it as it seems to work fine for you but I'm just wondering. Looks great can't wait to see it in real life if 488 and 1251 both make it back to Championship in 09. Good luck and nice slick designing.

[AdamHeard]

looking good, just a few questions.

Is the switch to 6" wheels so they can be entirely COTS?

Have you considered running 2 CIMs per side? If so, would you just mirror one of those CIM mounts to the other side?

Where do you foresee attaching mechanisms/superstructure?

[qnetjoe]

Great CAD work it looks really similar to our gen 8 reference CAD design that we release every year. Take a look:

http://uncert.mines.edu/research/csr/FIRST/Gen8.htm

If I may, I would look at some stamped pillow blocks like the AMI Bearings BPP1-8 rather than try to modify some of the 8020 parts for your bearing blocks. Here is a link to there catalog page 15

http://amibearings.com/pdfs/mounted_normal.pdf