pic: We got bored :)

[Dillon Carey]

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[Stephen of REX]

Cool metal work, but what does it do?

[Jared Russell]

I believe it is the world's smallest swerve module.

[Chris is me]

Heard a little about this, pretty much the neatest little swerve that you ever did see... Looks neat to say the least. Smaller than a kit wheel this year.

[BrendanB]

How much does that little thing weigh?

[Dillon Carey]

here's a picture of the other side:

Originally Posted by BrendanB

How much does that little thing weigh?

It weighs about 1lb 5oz.

the Height from the turning sprocket to the bottom of the wheel is about 3 3/8"
(the wheel is 1 5/8" diameter, 1.625 )

[EricH]

What motor does it use to drive?

[Dillon Carey]

Originally Posted by EricH

What motor does it use to drive?

whatever motor you wanted to connect to the vertical axle, i would guess a cim in most cases.

[NorviewsVeteran]

If you want a digital camera to focus that close, set it to macro (the little flower icon).

Neat design in the sides there

[Big Kid]

extremely neat, I remember our prototype swerve module (never made it to the robot) was like 5x heavier and bulkier, i like the design too really neat

[Dillon Carey]

Originally Posted by NorviewsVeteran

If you want a digital camera to focus that close, set it to macro (the little flower icon).

thanks for the tip

[daltore]

Any pictures of the innards? Sweet design, I'd love to see that on an FTC robot (if they would allow it along with all the other parts needed).

[Dillon Carey]

If there aren't limitations on the wheels there shouldn't be any reason not to put this on an frc bot.

[GarrettF2395]

Wow!
I'm always really impressed by your teams quality of components!

Two questions for you:
1) From the beginning of the design process, to having a finished product,
how long did it take your team to complete this project? (Just wondering)

2) Do you have an idea of how much load this little guy can take?

[Dillon Carey]

Originally Posted by GarrettF2395

1) From the beginning of the design process, to having a finished product,
how long did it take your team to complete this project? (Just wondering)

Its the off-season so we have been taking it nice and easy, we have probably been working on it for over a month, if you take out design and it probably took 3 days.

In a build season environment we could probably have 4-6 of these done in 3-4 days (give or take a few depending on when the waterjet is open and when we can get the hex put in the bevel gears and axles made).

Originally Posted by GarrettF2395

2) Do you have an idea of how much load this little guy can take?

The wheels would be the weakest point, in my opinion, since everything else is .25" plate and .5" hex.

http://banebots.com/pc/WHB-WS-174/T40P-174BO-HS4 is where we got the wheels, but i can't find a number for how much they can hold, although I'm pretty sure that having 3 wheels per module and having 3-4 modules on a robot that the wheels would be fine.