Thread: Flipping Rules?
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Re: Flipping Rules?

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Originally Posted by T3_1565 View Post
not impossible. if you acticulate the whole wheel assembly (motor gearbox etc.) you can move it however you want. Just some slack in the wires. Also easier if you running each wheel independently and not from a central gearbox
Read: impossible to do if each side of your drive is belted/chained together, as in 90% of FRC tank drives.

The point here isn't that it's rigorously impossible to do, it's that it's completely unfeasible. Of course, you can have one gearbox per wheel and actuate all your wheels at the start of the match. You'd be adding a boatload of silly complexity for essentially no benefit.
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