
09-01-2017, 11:04
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Serial Volunteer
AKA: Ed Patterson
 FRC #0191 (X-Cats)
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Rookie Year: 2002
Location: Rochester,NY
Posts: 22,945
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Re: 2017 Drive Train
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Originally Posted by pfreivald
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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or the eventual ball pit the field will rapidly become...
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