pic: 2011 Drive Prototype

[MWB]

Originally Posted by sdcantrell56

This looks to me like a redrawing of a 254/968 robot. WHile good for developing CAD skills, it is only probably 10% of the actual design process. The secrecy about the cam is particularly bizarre. I can't imagine anything you have done to drastically change the already mentioned cam method of tensioning that you wouldn't even know about without the free sharing that 254/968 participate in.

It's a bit disheartening to see all this "design" and "prototype" being claimed as your own, when it is clearly a near carbon copy of an already existing design although not even the most recent version of the drivetrain that they use.

I am a bit worried about the amount of people posting "west coast" drive "designs" lately that clearly dont understand the actual intricacies involved with the design and instead of taking the time to figure out the chain runs, bearing blocks, tensioning, etc, spend the time focusing on making "cool" renders. When it comes to how the robot functions, the quality of the render will have absolutely no correlation.

Sir in no way is this a copy of 254's robots, it may look similar as a lot of robots made of 2x1 and 1x1 do. but all the dimensions and shapes are way different than 254's. The person that showed me how to make a cam isn't even from 254. Also, i did spend time mapping the chain runs and making sure the bearing blocks worked correctly. And anyways the render took me 5 min to make and less time to setup, the only reason i put a render up is so that there weren't a whole bunch of black lines and little colors.