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Re: 2017 Drive Train

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Originally Posted by efoote868 View Post
From a design and build perspective, H-drive is by far more complicated than mecanum drive.
We did straight mecanum for two years, switched to octocanum for a few years, did mecanum again for Recycle Rush. I've never had a student programmer who couldn't fully program a mecanum drive exactly like a 3rd person shooter in at most an afternoon.

There's this myth that mecanum is hard to program. It just isn't. (It's also incredibly easy to build. Just direct-drive four wheels off of appropriate gearboxes, and voila.)

That said, straight-up mecanum will be a mistake this year. The parallels to Ultimate Ascent say defense will be *huge*, and mecanum drives don't do a good job powering through defense.
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