Thread: Casters vs. Unpowered Omni wheels
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Re: Casters vs. Unpowered Omni wheels
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Originally Posted by IndySam View Post
We used casters early on until 2005. We now have a hard and fast rule, no casters allowed on the robot, ever.
We used them in Rack and Roll. It remains to this day the most disastrous engineering decision we've ever made. (And we've made some doozies!)
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