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Re: Can Mecanum wheels pass the scoring zone?

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Originally Posted by Cyberphil View Post
Although the posts here are very helpful so far, and I agree with them, I seriously do not recommend building a drive train you have never even prototyped before. If you believe your team has the resources, time, and know-how to successfully build a new drive-train, by all means, take a stab at it. But if you don't have very strong programming, I recommend against it.
As a general rule I agree with this very much.

However, a mecanum drive with directly-driven wheels is incredibly simple to build, and the programming for teleop omnidirectional drive is pretty much built right into the libraries.
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