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Re: Mecanum Einstein this year

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Originally Posted by Hawiian Cadder View Post
i doubt we will see a purely mechanum drive on Einstein, ever. team with the maximum amount of experience and funds, who might be able to make it competitive enough to get there, would probably spring for swerve or crab drive. teams a teir down from that resource wise usualy stick to tank drive and shifters, a octumanium or nonadrive might fall in this tier. because mechanum is "an easier way to get 3 degrees of freedom" it involves trade offs, and to get to Einstein you really cannot have many trade offs.
There was a robot on Einstein with CIMple boxes and no floor loading.

How's that for trade offs. Most of the robots on Einstein still used 6wd/8wd/skid steer tank, nothing complicated like swerve. Your logic is flawed. The drive bases on Einstein could have been produced by many "second tier" teams, the rest of the robot couldn't be though.
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