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[roboticWanderor]

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[fuzzy1718]

What thickness of Aluminium are you using?
Nice Render by the way

[roboticWanderor]

.125 walled extrusion, for both the rails and crossbeams

[Andrew Schreiber]

AAAAND The offseason has officially begun.

Looks very nice.

[MrForbes]

this is a subliminal hint to the GDC to do away with the "full support behind the bumpers" rule?

Nice design. Seems it would be useful to have the team come up with several different chassis/drive ideas, that will work with different possible games (long/narrow, short/wide, ramps, funny surfaces, with/without bumpers, w/without floor harvesting, arms, etc). I know the 6wd long robot stuff we worked on last fall was way different than what we ended up building!

[Josh Goodman]

Originally Posted by squirrel

this is a subliminal hint to the GDC to do away with the "full support behind the bumpers" rule?

Nope. I think it's pretty blatant. Besides. Couldn't you hear the screaming all year? *hehe*

This is a beautiful render. Thanks for sharing this!

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by squirrel

this is a subliminal hint to the GDC to do away with the "full support behind the bumpers" rule?

And 6 inches on both sides of every corner rule?

Looks nice. Hopefully it could be used in some future competition.

[AustinSchuh]

You might consider extending the beam that the wheel is mounted to out a little bit so that if you ram a wall at high speeds, you don't break/bend the wheel. 254 welds a piece of 1x2 out front for this purpose. And has broken it off before in a match.

Looks pretty good otherwise.

[roboticWanderor]

the wheels are extended beyond the frame to allow the chassis to overcome steps and other small platforms. this is also why there are no bumpers on the corners. This could be amended to fit the current bumper rules, and if there is a flat field. Thanks for all the feedback!

[Akash Rastogi]

Lewis, you're too godly at SW. Stop it. You're making me jealous.

Awesome render though, I like the compact layout of the electronics, especially with the cRIO int he back. Looks purdy.

[thefro526]

That's definitely one of the nicer Renders I've seen. I really like the drive base too. The only comment I have is that your battery and master breaker placement seem odd. They Seem like they'd be hard to get to if you build an arm or something on top of this chassis.

[Chris is me]

The only thing I can see wrong with such a design is that it seems like it would be difficult to pull the battery out with a manipulator on top of this nice looking chassis. Then again, I'm not much of an engineer. Personally I'd put the battery where the cRIO is.