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Originally Posted by Billfred
I know first-hand that mecanum drives go back to at least 2006 (357--Royal Assault--ran them to the Florida Regional finals). I know AndyMark had them available for the 2008 season (1293 used parts from them). That's seven years (okay, six if you want to discount Lunacy) of development for the masses. Swerve was around no later than 2000 (per this CD-Media picture of Chief Delphi (as in FRC 47) that year), maybe a couple years prior? With the raw number of teams now compared to then, I have to think mecanum has matured as an option by now. |
I stand corrected. For some reason I thought they were only introduced by AM a few years ago.
Swerve for life BTW. I don't care how effective they are now, but new designs are introduced every year. So many ways to do one thing.