Re: pic: The most unlikely wheels on Einstein
 

Team 1671 the Bird Brains were the fist team to actually field a mecanum drive base on Einstein carpet in all of FRC in 2015.

Re: pic: The most unlikely wheels on Einstein
 

I was speaking of Mecanums, not Lunacy wheels.

Re: pic: The most unlikely wheels on Einstein
 

IIRC 2512 was also running Mecanums?

At least from what I saw on hopper they were...

edit- yes they were:



It's a tie then as they both played in Match 1 of Einstein 2015... Unless you want to count physical touching of the carpet, which I think is missing the point :P

Re: pic: The most unlikely wheels on Einstein
 

Two hot takes for this thread which somehow became a discussion about mecanum wheels:

1. We won't see mecanum wheels actually touch the carpet on Einstein again for quite some time, if ever - at least at North Champs, maybe the depth at South Champs is limited enough to make it work?

2. Mecanum drive, properly coded with a good gyro and control scheme, was almost strictly better than a traction drive in 2015, particularly if you played in the landfill. Teams that had the ability to implement mecanum, but chose not to, were at a disadvantage, but made up for it in other areas (intake, etc).