Manufacture Of The Chassis

The chassis will be used as a base to mount all of the individual components we will be using, such as the wheels, the motors and circuitry.

As a group we thought of many different ideas for the chassis, including the use of lego, acrylic sheet and cardboard. The list was narrowed down as we thought most of these ideas were not feasible for a number of reasons, such as rigidity and being difficult to build.

Three ideas were selected to be feasible, one of them being a used RC buggy chassis and the other two employing the use of meccano and plywood.



The used RC buggy was specifically designed for a purpose by its manufacturer. Hence the holes and mounts on the chassis. If this was selected the holes and mounts would get in the way of our circuitry. The holes also look visually unappealing.

Choosing to manufacturer the buggy chassis using plywood gives us more freedom to change the chassis to fit the circuitry. However, once the chassis has been manufactured to fit it is difficult to adapt it, therefore a new chassis would need to be built.

Using meccano to build the chassis is the most feasible and practical idea because it holds no limitations. If the design of the chssis needs to be changed at any point it can easily be done. Also, meccano would be the most visually appealing chassis out of the three pictured above.