Final design update leading up to September Scuffle in Houston.
I've gone ahead and decided to go through and highlight the major design changes leading up to this next event, but first, RENDERS.
Design Changes
I'm going to go ahead and list off the major design changes from the previous iterations.
- Full HDPE Chassis
No more titanium for Honeycomb. Even though it was very durable, it weighed too much to iterate the design much farther than where it already was especially for updating a new drive system. - Drive Pod System
Honeycomb will now have pre-assembled hot swappable drive pods that will heavily increase drive reliability through indirect drive, 1/4" steel wheel shafts, and now wheel guards.
- Casted Wheels
I'm not sure how this will turn out, but the hope is to decrease weight and have a more robust drive through custom casted 3D printed nylon wheels with a steel reinforcement bushing. Might attempt a reinforced nylon or reinforcement screws down the road if the parts delaminate too easily, but figured I would try out non-reinforced to start. Hopefully I'll be able to get the polyurethane casted in an obnoxious yellow without excessively negative material property effects.
- Weapon Assembly
I've moved away from press fit steel on an aluminum stock and will now be doing a sandwich weapon constrained by 2 1/4" grade 8 steel bolts down its length. The idea will be to tap the fingertech pully so I can directly screw down and constrain the assembly fully with the 2 bolts without the need of additional fastening hardware. This will save a significant amount of weight as well getting rid of the aluminum hex stock allowing me to allocate more weight to the drive system.
I'll try to get some manufacturing updates out over the next few weeks, but if not you can look forward to a event recap video from September Scuffle.
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