pic: 8-Wheel Chassis

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Originally Posted by Tyler2517

I am exstreamly interested in the octagon frame, and what design decisions did you use to come up with it what advantages do you think it will give you?

Why the 8 sides with such steep corners?

My team used a similar octagon frame this year, with 4.5" sides on a 45deg angle. These corners are 5" long in a 3-4-5 triangle arrangement. Although this makes for some weird angles, it means that all of the side lengths are whole, rational values (in other words, less math ). Octagon frames have a few advantages:

-It allows you to have more inside surface area while staying inside a 112" perimeter.
-Defensive robots can't hit your corners. This doesn't sound like much, but any robot with omnis as outside wheels can easily be bumped out of position by a corner push.

Originally Posted by magnets

I would not set up the wheel axle bearings the way you have them now. I would definitely use some type of bearing block so that the bearing is well supported. Right now, all the load on the shaft is concentrated on only .125" of the bearing.

Yeah, a bearing block would be used. The bearings in the model are just there to say that a bearing goes in that general area.