Thought if I started now I might get time to test before GSL 2015!

A few changes to the design and the thinking behind this bot. Hornet is my robot this year and although I really enjoyed making a bot using CNC machines, its just not very Bitza. If Crux does come into being it's going to be back to our old mantra, recycling as much as possible. This box section was getting chucked by school so I cut out some really rough lengths before the scrappy collected it, currently 3.5kg of steel there.

Design changes:

I'm thinking of having the suspension in the wheels rather than the frame. The down force will be huge, so I hoping the frame will bottom out after the wheel compress a bit.

Something like this
http://www.societyofrobots.com/image...sion_wheel.jpg

Probably going to go for a bar over a disk. I'm sure there are advantages to a disk over bar but I can't really think of them. Also and a bar would be cheaper / easier to scrounge.

I'm ditching the control box for conventional electronics

It'll probably be shorter than the original CAD image I put up


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