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Re: Team 4206 Pre-Season Drive Module (In Progress)

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Originally Posted by wilsonmw04 View Post
This^^

The drive is the most important thing on the robot. If it does not work, you have a bad day at your event. We spent all season, including champs, fighting that drive train. We finally figured it out in July and it is wicked. But, it took 7 months of working to get it right.
We have materials ordered for 6 modules, and were planning on making a right and left for now (machining side, as the rest of the materials are VEX/AM) so that everything works okay and that we can either be confident or do a tank. Would this be acceptable, or do we need to build the full thing in person?

And also, our team has run mecanum and traction wheels both, so concepts and necessary items we have plans for (gyros, encoders, etc)