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Originally Posted by EricH
I want to say that it was even earlier. I remember seeing it before the '04 season; I believe it was the '03 SCRRF Fall Workshops. 60 used 4WD in '03; not sure if 254 used 4WD or 6WD.
Competition debut was in 2004, when the aforementioned teams built identical robots.
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Team 60 used the cantilevered output shaft/wheel design for many years prior to the 254/60 collaboration. I would argue that those designs were the foundation of today's “West Coast Drive." The addition of six/eight wheels and a lowered center wheel/wheels was the next obvious iteration. The elegance and simplicity of the design, however, was something that had been done by team 60 for many years before the prototype 6WD drive train that was used at Cal Games in the Fall of 2003 and the collaboration between 254 and 60 that occured in 2004 and brought about the now well known 6WD West Coast Drive..
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