pic: Team 3572 Chassis Project

[MrBasse]

Originally Posted by 75vs1885

looks like the cims would interfere with the bumpers, and they could get damaged if hit to hart from another robot. Is there an advantage to having them pointing outside opposed to inside?
Other than that it seems really solid.
btw, would the electronics board be mounted underneath?

bumpers would mount on the outside of the CIMs, but mounts haven't been figured out yet. Putting them outside gives a huge amount of space to get all of our electronics down as low as possible in the frame. We are trying to get back to our 2013 design where our center of gravity was about 4 inches off the floor. Having the battery lay down in the middle of the robot makes that pretty easy.

We have always only used around 13-14 lbs of bumper, a more ridged attachment frame that eats up around 5 lbs of bumper weight could be all the protection the motors would need, I hope...