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Originally Posted by tuXguy15
Our team wants to experiment with different drive trains and was wondering which would be the best to play with. What are the advantages and disadvantages of them?
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What does your team have experience with? What are your manufacturing resources? Where do you have/lack experience (CAD, programming, machining, sensors, etc.)? Are you looking to work on systems you are inexperienced in or perfect ones that you already have a bit of experience with? Are you looking to work mainly with the kit frame and just improving upon it, or going after a custom construction?
An example of how these questions matter: a team with significant sheet metal sponsors and access to water jet cutting and a sheet metal break will likely design something differently from a team with mills, lathes, and experience using box tube aluminum. Heck, 1714 makes the majority of their robot out of lexan because they have a big sponsor that specializes in acrylics and other plastics!