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Re: 2017 Drive Train

Disclaimer: Build a tank drive. Please. Just do that. If you are the kind of person who listens to advice on CD to make drivetrain decisions, do that.

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That said, there's a pretty reasonable argument for swerve or butterfly drive this year if it's compact. The bumper rules limit intakes since six inches of room on each side of the drive must be backed by bumper - leaving more space for various omnidirectional drives. Lining up at the peg, goals, or human loader could theoretically be faster using a strafing drivetrain. And the full field sprints lend themselves well to butterfly style drivetrains.

But I mean, if you haven't considered these drives and built prototypes long before reading this post, it's too late, and the possible small advantage they could give your team is more than offset by the development difficulty. We have a bunch of other tough tasks to do in this game, don't make it harder than it has to be.
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