pic: 4587-Sheet Metal Chassis

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Cash4587

I am definitely going to keep the shape of the chassis like this though. I hadn't really understood the reason behind 148 and 971's hex and ocot sided frames until you told me at Comic-palooza.

Play around with it and see how you like it. Our team was 8 sided this past year and most people assumed it was to prevent getting stuck in pins however the real reason is that the extensions on the left and right sides allowed us to fit our shooter on top of our robot inside the frame perimeter. While we did notice it was slightly harder for someone to pin us we did find ourselves getting stuck because one of the sides would brush up against and object (side wall, other robots, etc) and would spin us into them. Our driver had to learn that he could no longer run up the side of the field and needed to stay several inches away so he could continue to drive in a straight line.

Every team needs to come up with their own opinions but our team won't be doing a multi-sided robot again for the purpose of making it harder to pin us.