Introducing, Strange Swerve 4.0!
This summer our team designed and created our fourth swerve iteration in preparation for next year's challenge! We have managed to use swerve in the past two game challenges and hope to continue. Strange Swerve 4.0 is lighter, and more robust than our previous 2016 design, weighing in at 5.4lbs per module. For comparison, in our previous modules, our motors alone weighed in at 4.1lbs. Our design is using mainly water cut parts, one of which is a custom 100 tooth gear. We have an encoder on both our rotation and drive motors. The rest is standard vex gears, gearboxes and wheels. Here are some pictures of the module:
Going a little more technical, our main plate is sandwiched by the 100 tooth gear and a top plate, all of these parts have grooves designed to hold bearings. This allows us to continuously rotate our wheel on the custom bearing. Here are some of the renders from our 3D step models that we will release soon, as we fully intend on using them in 2017.
Comments, feedback, and questions are welcome! You can help us brainstorm some improvements for our design if you wish, or we can explain something on our module more in depth.