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Re: pic: Chameleon Drive

We switched from swerve to Mecanum at the LA Regional this year; this was because we accidentally fried our swerve steering motors when calibrating the PID at San Diego and didn't want to deal with it at LA. We were able to do this very fast because we design our drive train in modules. Each module uses the same of mounting and has everything already built in (except controllers).

I really like a of things about the the OP's design, especially the design around limited manufacturing capabilities. Also, it looks like it should be able to accept mecanum as well because of the corner gearboxes. Great work!
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