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Unread 08-05-2011, 19:40
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Fusing Function with Form
AKA: Mathew Simon
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Re: Swerve Drive Modules

Thanks everyone. Especially John. I'm going to fix that in the design.
And as to not building swerve, I too have seen it work and fail. Of course, 1717 has an exceptional design that we will not be able to match for at least a year or two.
However, We feel that this is a good way to open our team up to the sheet-metal world. If the swerve works well, we may build our 2012 chassis with SM. If we can form a solid relationship with a SM manufacturing shop, its worth a try.

@AdamHeard, yes we did. I'm going to do my best to get our team away from Mecanum drive.
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