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Originally Posted by MARS_James
"Einstein" Argument: The amount of teams utilizing Mechanum or any omnidirectional drive is less then the number of teams utilizing a more traditional drive, so they have less representatives competing for a place on Einstein, statistics and probability show that the smaller group has a smaller chance of being selected (Also in judging the amount of time passed since someone with omnidirectional drive got on Einstein try to ignor 2009 since lunacy didn't allow for mechanum or oni wheels).
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Well, bomb squad did pretty well at Einstein this year with an omni directional drive train, however, it wasn't meccanum.
On a side note: In my engineering drawing class we were told to make bikes. (using inventor), so I decided it would be an interesting idea to make a mecanum bike. Originally I planned to use 26" diameter wheels, but accidentally plugged 26" in as the radius, but I've decided to roll with 52" diameter wheels. While I wouldn't be confident enough to actually use mecanum on a competition bot, especially considering that my team now has experience with swerve, I do think that mecanum is an interesting challenge and learning experience.