Thread: Can Mecanum wheels pass the scoring zone?
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Re: Can Mecanum wheels pass the scoring zone?
I wasn't the one putting the last year's Mecanum drive upgrade on this year's KOP, but they were able to put them outboard using existing holes and they never mentioned it being hard in any way. However using existing holes makes the base too low and it will just barely drag on the scoring bumps so we'll be adding some holes to the KOP chassis to raise it up, but we should be running it as-is tonight as a base and electronic board only (No lifting mechanism installed).

They are going to use a Z axis joystick (that took me 10 minutes to find in a back room behind stuff) but I'm thinking that an XBox controller might work better. I guess we'll find out.
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