22-02-2011, 13:05
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AKA: Pinecone
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 7,621
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Re: Team 1625 Introduces their 2011 Robot: Mr. Cringerpants
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Originally Posted by JesseK
I get how the lobster actuation works (downright ingenious imo) -- the front/rear wheels are the rotation axes for the lateral wheels. Yet what really blows my mind is how the belt running between the two lateral wheels ('lobster wheels' ?) doesn't get eaten when the robot turns in place during normal operation. Is there a differential not shown?
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I'm hazarding a guess that the left gearbox is chained to the front wheels and the right gearbox is chained to the back, or something similar.
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