The new chassis will be made from .09″ thick Aluminum and will weight in at 11.84lbs, It is sliced and diced to cut weight. We know this will add a lot of chassis flex but since we are using Mecanum wheels we’re alright with that.
We’re also working on the lightening pattern for the back of the robot. Put your opinion in the comments.
We should be driving this weekend, with or without Mecanum wheels, as the practice robot is just about finished being wired. Our goal is to finish the CAD for all the mechanisms over the next two days and have drawings ready to go to Solarcraft to be cut and bent early next week.
– Spectrum
“Whenever I tackled the impossible or the miraculous, I remembered the magician Rene Lavand, who had only one arm. Poet and extraordinary card manipulator, he baffled fellow illusionists by concluding his brilliant demonstrations with, “What I just showed you can also be done with two hands!” – Philippe Petit, Man on Wire, 2002, p. 236.
I really like option 3, It looks quite nice. One thing with option 1 is I was told that in order to get more structural integrity out of that type of pattern is to use a linear patterned X that was drawn from corner to corner. (I received that info from James Tonthat mentor of 1477 and member of Copioli Build Blitz)