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Wheel count

Some chassis kits have elaborate movement methods, legs, tank tracks, and tri-star wheels, to name a few. While these are fun and I encourage experimenting with them, this is not the place to start at. So, I recommend a thoroughly sensible, if basic, wheels on motors version.

There are kits with four-wheel drive and six-wheel drive. These can be quite powerful and will require larger motor controllers. They may also chew through batteries, and you are increasingly the likelihood of overloading something. This also makes for trickier wiring, as seen in the following:

Four-wheel drive robot

Two-wheel drive is the simplest to wire ...