pic: MadTown Chassis Rev 4

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Excessive pocketing it seems (as Nick pointed out with the words in the front rail). Also, that entire top tier of the frame serves no obvious purpose. Care to explain? As always, nice CAD work.

If you have ruled out building a traditional West Coast frame, what led you to your decision? I know that Adam Heard is hard to argue with when it comes to the benefits of the frame, haha.

Sorry for all the questions bro, but I just finished JVN's white paper on decision making in robot design and I'm trying to get more people to post up quantitative rationale on designs.

P.S.- You gotta remove all those electronics to show the people the smexi Poof/Pink inspired belly pan.

Jeff explained the top rail part. I haven't ruled out the traditional westcoast, this is just another revision to our chassis, hence Rev_4 (06-09). It has some more machine work which allows easier maintenance/bumper mounting and removal (machine work done by sponsor who only does our base this year).

The hole pattern I feel is worth it and the idea was taken from FRC 801/973.

Currently, I'm working with Adam to make a westcoast dt. Never done it and it should be a great experience.

Here's the render of the Pan itself.

Which was inspired by 254/968.

-RC