06-02-2011 01:37

Tytus Gerrish

Re: pic: FRC488 Octocanum with cylinders

Awesome, i always wanted to do that. mad props

06-02-2011 02:15

Akash Rastogi

Re: pic: FRC488 Octocanum with cylinders

Looks awesome. Also, is the whole frame connected using polycarb brackets/joints and rivets?

06-02-2011 13:13

techtiger1

Re: pic: FRC488 Octocanum with cylinders

Madison,

Please keep the CD community posted on how this design works out for you. This is a design idea that came around years ago but no one had ever actually integrated it on to a FRC robot till now. I'm very excited to see the final results, looks great so far.

06-02-2011 14:55

Fred Sayre

Re: pic: FRC488 Octocanum with cylinders

The upper frame which is all 1/16" wall 1"x1" aluminum tube is held together with 1/8" polycarb gussets with 3/16" rivets. There is not too much it needs to support and since we can cut nearly a whole robot's worth of them in a single pass of the CO2 laser cutter we have at the shop it is very quick and easy way to get fairly sturdy joints. The lower frame is 8020 1010 held together by their counterbore anchor fasteners.