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Originally Posted by magnets
This is really true. I feel the same way. We no longer have wacky weird (but effective) designs. There's no longer weird stuff, like ball drives, swerve pods that go up and down, and other strange grabbers from team 47.
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Really? Really?!?
Articulating drive trains with various omni-directional, mecanum, and traction wheels are all the rage. 148 has a sideways drive that is activated entirely by inertia this year. 971 was experimenting with friction clutch gearboxes. There is no shortage of new and interesting software algorithms like CheesyDrive. There's been swerve drives with CIM motors inside wheels. We've had fans and ball magnets on robots, and some teams even used massive spinning weights to make their robots turn faster. Teams are 3D printing drive wheels and gearboxes.
We are in a golden age of innovation in FRC and robots today are way better than they've ever been before.