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Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence
Looks solid. Something I noticed is your CG is between your back two wheels, so all of your turns spin around that back point, negating one of the useful effects of the 8wd and also preventing you from turning in place with almost no displacement of the robot.
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With the smaller robot size placing your gearboxes on one end allows you to keep a nice wide electronics area open in the robot without having to break it up. Having a small square robot you won't notice this off center turning as much and depending on what is build on top of it, the weight can distribute out. Our 2013 was weighted towards the back due to where our hanger was connected to our robot and we had both our gearboxes and battery as far back as we could. Even then when we hung on the tower we were the front end of our robot hung lower. Our driver had no issues or complaints and it was one of the smoothest 6wd robots I have driven. Also, when using gears to drive your robot, adding in wheels 7 & 8 is extremely easy so as an off-season robot it makes a nice test platform.