pic: Our New Robot Frame

[comwiz7]

Well we didn't want to lose two days to powder coating, but they were doing it for free and now our robot is awesome looking so it was worth it. We spent countless hours designing this thing and trying to avoid making the same errors as last year. We drew up our robot in AutoCAD for the technical parts, and 3DS Max to show everybody ideas and center of gravity was our biggest problem. We moved things around until it worked. The only problem we have now is that if you accelerate too fast without the ball, it will pop a fatal wheely but I plan to code a limit to how fast it can accelerate. Still working out the method of doing that though.

The worst problem we had (and that is pictured) is that parts of the frame were warped while our newer welder was welding it. The front wheels are 1/4" off the ground. That's fixed now though.