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Re: pic: Butterfly Drive Concept

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Originally Posted by orangemoore View Post
With Mecanum you have to run each wheel individually. Here they can run each side resulting in the ability to run 3 cims per side.
Yep this is why it was designed like this. Also I wanted to ability to have a 2 speed shift with the wheels at a 1:1 ratio so this seemed like the simplest solution. Also the next iteration of the design will (probably) have the traction and omni flipped.
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