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Re: Swerve Drive Concept

Design looks pretty good. I dig the 8 motor design.

The top orange plate on the module seems overly complicated, from a machining standpoint.

Instead of having those little flanges hanging down, why not just bolt downwards through the orange plate into the two side plates?

What are you using to rotate the module?

And how are you tensioning the chain? It's hard to see what's going on back there.

I sort of consider 1640 to be the gold standard of swerve (Well, tied with 1717 maybe ), and they've really taken the time to iterate, improve their design, and cut out unnecessary things. They also released everything you could want to know online. I'm not saying ditch your design and go with theirs, but they've already solved a lot of the problems for you, so you can learn from their mistakes so to speak
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