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Re: Hexagonal Chassis + 6 CIM swerve drive

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Originally Posted by cbale2000 View Post
What if you mounted the motors where the wheels are now, and had a set of wheels on either side of motors? It would give you stability by having a wheel in each of the 6 corners, but the simplicity of only needing 3 modules.
This seems pretty good.
Basically cbale says to have one gearbox for each two independent coaxial modules. That way you only need 3 gearboxes.