06-11-2013, 11:07
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Jim Zondag is my Spirit Animal
 FRC #2170 (Titanium Tomahawks) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Manchester, Connecticut
Posts: 7,003
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Re: Mecanum Drivetrains
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Originally Posted by Flak-Bait
If you want to get creative, you can do all kinds of crazy things with mecanums. For example, in 2011, 1058 built this simple 4-cim mecanum drive with a twist. Each wheel had a third mecanum plate with cut-up pieces of truck mud flap on it. This plate could be actuated into the rollers, freezing the rollers in place, but not the wheel. With these activated, the robot would be a high-traction 4WD that could push other robots around. At the press of a button this would switch to the normal mecanum drive, giving it unmatched speed and maneuverability.
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This sounds pretty creative! Do you have pictures or videos of it in action?
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