The Full Measure (XBR CHASSIS)

XBR-001 chassis dimension final count:

LOWER CHASSIS SECTION

LENGTH: 350mm
WIDTH : 250mm
HEIGHT: 100mm
WALL THICKNESS: 15mm
THROUGH HOLE DIAMETER: 5mm-6mm

INNER SECTION (hardware bay's - C1-C2)

LENGTH: 155mm (including round end)
HEIGHT: 70mm

BODY SECTION (RING X 1):

OUTER RING HEIGHT : 40mm
OUTER RADIUS: 75mm
INNER RING HEIGHT: 10mm
INNER RADIUS: 150mm
CENTER CONDUIT RADIUS: 35mm

HEAD SECTION (DOME STYLE):

HEIGHT: 75mm + (40mm adaptor plate): 115mm
RADIUS: 75mm
EYE RADIUS: 35mm

WHEELS AND SIDE COVERS:

RADIUS: 75mm
WIDTH:50mm *to be confirmed
SIDE COVER IS SAME AS THE CHASSIS PROFILE- without the inner bay cut outs.

Additional infomation and notes.

While the chassis is shown with a 15mm center support, this can be moved in the design stage if you plan to free form the chassis your self. The Chassis is designed mainly as a skid steer robot, but later modules should include other drive options including tracks and Two motor drive with a pivot wheel. The current design would be fabricated from a range of materials including foam, wood or plastic.
These dimensions may change slightly and a half scale version may be produced as well, but if you want to build a smaller one then just scale the plans down.

Today we re drew the basic plans on to thick card and cut out the first run templates for the mock up to be assembled this week. The templates are full scale not half as most of the earlier designs were ( this was to make it easier to design in a normal book, while still keeping it all to scale. The top image is the tools we used for this, A compass, some HB pencils sveral rulers of various lengths , and a digital caliper for taking fine measurments of parts we want to fit in later.
The second image is the cut out templates with a ruler for scale ( in inches ) these templates are all that is needed to draw out the parts needed for the robot, At this stage the hardest part is going to be the dome head, this may be revised from the first renders of the robot, And depending on how hard it is to replicate the dome we may release a diffrent head shape for the first run, but we really like this head.
The wheels are gooing to be a little bigger then first thought, but this increases ground clearance.
Later, hackers.
sprocket.

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XBR Wallpaper Army

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Robot Blueprint #2a

The images arnt to scale but give all the dimensions needed to re create the chassis sections, (you need two)
So if your looking to see if its going to fit all the goodies you have stock piled for your project download the image and start drawing up the plans yourself.

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