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Originally posted by FotoPlasma
I was a field attendant at that competition, and I have a 2.5" piece of extrusion from that robot, sitting here on my desk. It was left on the field, after one of your more violent matches, and I decided to keep it as a souvenier, in honor of the first swerve drive robot I'd seen in real life.
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Cool! It was one of the first swerve drive systems I remember too, I was actually surprised when I saw another at NATS that year... I thought we were the only darned creative ones
As cool as it was though, it was very hard to maintain. It took 10 minutes to swap out the gears for ONE wheel, and then the motor calibration in the program was insane. That is why I have these nice blueprints on my desk for swerve^2... its motto would be, "All the swerve, none of the fuss"
Anyway... back on topic. This wonderful story goes to show that even after a year... extrusion from our robot is still around... somewhere at least
