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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV
We can clear this up easily. 4 omni wheels can be called butterfly, to keep the Bees happy and the 148 style drive train can be called Tex Coast Drive like it should be*.
*For those wondering, I'm going to keep depending it be called Tex Coast Drive for the foreseeable future, so you should probably just get on board. |
I just think it's weird that the first drivetrain called butterfly was an articulated traction / omni combination... Then the term enters (vaguely) popular use to refer to the other kinds of articulated drives in 2012-2014... But now we're changing it because of one team? If all omni was always the intended meaning of butterfly and a traction mode was always an "extra", then I probably have been misunderstanding the term the whole time.
I can see the challenge of picking a different name for it though. "Omni drive" implies holonomic capability. Perhaps "omni wheel tank" would be more descriptive? Doesn't exactly bounce off the tongue.