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Originally Posted by rwkling1
I can see where you're coming from, but until they come out with an official price, you can really start saying that it's going to be really expensive, because they did say that it's "affordable" but affordable in robotics terms is a little vague.
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Unless I'm mistaken they have come out with the official prices. All the parts are available and ready to be ordered. They just haven't released the documentation.
We still haven't seen the kit of parts drive train for this season. All we know is that it's adding a direct driven wheel and it's made out of sheet metal. I don't think we can start comparing things to it until it's been in the hands of teams, same goes for the new VersaChassis.
All of this innovation is going to great for FRC but it's a little to early to speculate which things will actually be game changing and give huge advantages to teams. We'll have to wait and see if the a full VersaChassis is that much better compared too a Kitbot on Steroids or VEXpro chassis in a day (both of which can also be put together in a very short period of time). It's not like the westcoast drive is the end all and be all of drive trains, there are plenty of great robots every year that don't use westcoast drives trains.