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Originally Posted by peirvine
The only addition I would make to your drive base would be the addition of a strafe wheel in the center of your robot. You had the right idea with the butterfly drive, its pretty much a Jump Drive, but in order to make better use of your omni's I would have put a strafe wheel in the middle, otherwise you would have been better off just building a multi speed gearbox. Don't get me wrong, I love your butterfly concept, in fact, our team my try it out this summer, but you need to have a strafe wheel if you have omni's.
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not really much point when you are going to strafe much slower than your forward speed. They probably prefer saving the weight and complexity of adding the omni. It's actually very different then a multi speed gearbox. When they push down their outer for wheels it is impossible to turn them which is very helpful for auton, playing defense, and getting through defense.