07-02-2010 22:23

Starke

Re: pic: 294 Teaser #1

It looks like two frames sitting upside down and on top of each other to me

07-02-2010 22:38

keehun

Re: pic: 294 Teaser #1

Yeah. Where are you mounting your bumpers?

08-02-2010 00:17

1747robotics

Re: pic: 294 Teaser #1

Please tell me that chassis will eventually make like Wisconsinites and get cheesed...

(PS- I am from Wisconsin, so it's ok for me to make that statement! )

08-02-2010 00:34

Chris is me

Re: pic: 294 Teaser #1

My team has a very similar chassis that only weighs 30ish pounds. They have lightening on the inside of the AL rails though.

08-02-2010 11:24

Kettering

Re: pic: 294 Teaser #1

I want to know how you got the tread blue! That's awesome! We'd love some green tread on our bot.

08-02-2010 11:26

MrForbes

Re: pic: 294 Teaser #1

I think that is the Nitrile Rough Top tread that McMaster-Carr sells. It comes blue, not green, though.

08-02-2010 11:27

IndySam

Re: pic: 294 Teaser #1

McMaster page 1237

08-02-2010 11:32

Alan Anderson

Re: pic: 294 Teaser #1

Search the forums for "nitrile". McMaster-Carr sells the blue nitrile roughtop conveyor belting often used for traction wheel treads.

I believe they also have green PVC roughtop. I don't know anything about its potential performance on an FRC robot, though.

08-02-2010 13:01

Racer26

Re: pic: 294 Teaser #1

You may wish to be careful with this design. You must put BUMPERS on, and the Q&A has implied that invertible ROBOTs, that intend to continue playing while inverted, must have their BUMPERS in the BUMPER ZONE even when inverted. This means, barring some crazy design I can't fully wrap my head around at the moment, your robot must be ~26" tall, and therefore unable to traverse the TUNNELs.