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Re: Butterfly/ octocanum drives

As RobotDoktor said, these drives can easily be very complex and heavy. We used it on our competition bot this year, naming the drive base the Dragonfly (And we won Excellence in Engineering at CMP for it). It switches between colsons and mecanum wheels, with each module weighing about 9 lbs. The entire thing with the electrical board, for us, was about 100 lbs packed into 6-8 inches of height. We came so close to the weight budget that we had to cut wires as short as possible just to cut down on weight!
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