PiWars 2018 – Frankentop Mechanical Build pt.1

Early on in the process, pi-top's Mechanical Design Engineer, Chris started making plans for our robot but everything changed in January after a brief discussion with our CTO Ryan, which led to Robo-Top becoming something of a pi-top Frankenstein's Monster. As I'm not massively technically-minded, Chris is going to take over the blog post from here and fill you all in with the journey from Brian's Max Robot to pi-top's monster. After deciding to mount a pi-top on the robot, the first we had to do was a space claim analysis. We had to compare the size of a pi-top to the robot space claim specified in the PiWars' rules. Our pi-top is 340mm wide and 220mm deep.