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Originally Posted by AustinSchuh
Not to sound like a broken record, but if you want to make a swerve drive during the season, you should make one in the off-season first. Every team that I know of who has done swerve has either done one in the offseason first, and been very glad that they tried a swerve then first, or wished they had made one in the offseason before they made one during the season. Swerves are hard to build and program.
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My team starts up pre-season when school starts and that's when i plan on pitching to my team for us to make a swerve drive. We may not use it in 2012 but it'd be good to be getting it started. I've done plenty of research on swerve drives already to know that they need to be started off-season or pre-season because they're complicated. But my team is 74, and we're an old team that should use our resources creating such drive trains. Of course we will come up with problems just like any team creating a swerve drive for the first time. But to reply to your comment, i made no intentions to go to my team right at kickoff saying, "Hey, let's make a 100% successful swerve drive this season." I understand that it takes a lot to make one of these and i thank you for your heads up on the difficulties as i will probably have to make a presentation on this for all of the team and mentors.
And if i have to I'll speak with team 141 Wo-Bot because they are right in our city and they have a pretty good crab drive.