Wheel placement

[Mega Masher]

Are those leds on the back plate. Looks awesome marco

[Gaseraki]

Are those leds on the back plate. Looks awesome marco

Thanks man. Its a bluetooth controlled RGB LED matrix. It lets me change different graphics on the fly. I can say PTO when I am upside down or when a house robot enters the arena I choose a crying smiley.

Here is a video of Trojan in action

[Eventorizon]

The robot will want to turn about its centre of mass. Ignoring spinners which mess with this, you want to get your weight as far forwards as you can. That is the simplest option.

The issues with messing with the wheels are that A) the banebots wheels are 73mm and the robochallange wheels are 75mm which will mean that one set is trying to drive faster than the other. This can be solved by lathing down the robochallange wheels to match and b) the banbots wheels will wear down faster meaning in order to keep the wheels the same size you will have to keep turning down your rears. A few mm may not seem like much but in time it will kill your motors.

To give you an idea, in 4 matches Conker 3 went from having 5mm of ground clearance to having just 2mm and Binky went from 6 to 3. Both run Blue 73mm banebots.

Just some additional info for you :-)

[Flag Captured]

Could you not use omniwheels like HypnoDisc and Razer used to (I think, anyway) because that'd keep your centre of turning around the front. I'm fairly sure they're a lot more expensive, and more brittle than your typical wheel but I guess it's an option if you can't shift your weight any more further forward...

[Revsmin]

I swear I saw Binky had the orange wheels at Yeovil?

[Ellis]

Yall need bike tyre™

[mrsam]

Hypno-disc never had omni wheels Matt, i'd worry about using them for a feather as well they seem a bit on the weak side.

[Eventorizon]

I swear I saw Binky had the orange wheels at Yeovil?

Probably the last set, I let my dad put her back together so he may have switched to give her more grip.

As for Omniwheels... not in a feather unless they are covered and custom made for the job. Off the shelf ones won't cut it. Same for mechanum wheels.

[Max]

Didn't Dave use omniwheels in 360?

[Eventorizon]

Didn't Dave use omniwheels in 360?

Nope The rear wheels are solid. But in that case the disc made it pivot around the front wheels very easily, even when it was up at 70 degrees and basically on 1 wheel.