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Unread 24-02-2003, 16:12
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The chain is sweet.

If you're underweight, chain weight shouldn't be a concern, to me. Criticizing you for using chain is about the same as criticizing you for not being able to stack 100 boxes; it's just plain silly. Be proud of your machine, it looks great to me.

For any doubters, it's worked in the past. Maybe not perfect, but a similar system was used by ChiefDelphi (chain for translation) in '99 and a very similar system was used by 190 (chain for translation and driven off bevel gears) in '00. I'm not a fan of chain for power transmission (we're all spur gears this year), but that's the best way to do a four wheel, mechanically linked swerve in my mind. Especially considering all the traction on those double wheels. Like I said, looks sweet. I hope I get a chance to see it in action sometime. Which competitions will you be at?

Frankly, I don't blame teams for being hostile with all the negative posts lately.
For the sake of your team, please try to keep a cool head, but the nitpicking is entirely out of hand.
You can only judge a robot so much from half-finished pictures and never seeing it actually move. Try not to let the negative comments get you down. Only you guys know the real capabilities of your machine. Last year we introduced the first holonomic drive used in a FIRST competition and half the comments we got were "your traction isn't any good". Well, we proved that wrong by winning an important defensive match (something our bot was never designed for) against a machine with seemingly better traction and power.

Good luck and I'd love to see video.

Adam
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