pic: 4587-Sheet Metal Chassis V.2

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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

Just a thought, can you make the wheel wells thinner by moving the pulleys that connect the two modules to the same shaft as the new gear for the MiniCIMs?

Also make sure to look at access holes for the motor mounting screws and which tool you would use to replace them. Same with shaft collars, and retaining rings.

Overall its looking really nice, I'll probably be borrowing some elements of this if we are given another flatfish field.

I like that idea, however looking at it, it would make the module only about 1/4" smaller due to the fact that the versa wheel is so wide becasue of the versa keys. If I wanted to make the module smaller than the versa key on one side of the wheel would need to be milled off. Even though that is not hard to do, I would rather not make the versa wheel a "custom part" in order for it to fit in the butterfly module.

As for access holes, we will be using retaining rings and right-angle allen keys down there to be able to get in there. Not too big of a deal considering that I don't expect to ever need to do maintenance to a module while still on the robot. The whole module will come out if you remove 2 retaining rings. The only "hard to reach" item is the motors which really isn't too bad