pic: 1341's 2006 Robot

[Adam Richards]

Originally Posted by NoodleKnight

I love the cheeseholing, especially on the sides of those large plates that cover the wheels -- interesting pattern, if there even is one.

We were originally going to do a grid pattern to make it look somewhat neat, but a few people got ahold of some drills while we weren't looking and began to randomly drill.

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Why such large wheels on the drive base?

One of our priorities is speed, and in high gear, we should get about 11fps with the 8" IFI Traction wheels.

Our initial design with those sideplates (which are each removable as individual assemblies if we need to repair them away from the robot) involved treads, but due to an engineering mishap, we didn't completely get them right, and at the end of the 4th week we had to give up, and order wheels as a quick replacement, as we were running out of time and we were holding up the other subteams on our drivetrain problems.