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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 didn't, in 2004 or 2003 they(we) attempted a coaxial swerve without any prototyping, it went about as badly as was possible.
*it was the first time they had done a custom gearbox setup, the got the tollarances wrong which caused the gears to heat up and burn whatever grease was on them.
*the 80-20 frame kept warping, and throwing chain
*programmers got less than a week with any drive-train (no prototype)
Prototype it in the off season, and maybe even take it to an event.