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Re: pic: Swerve^2 Prototype
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Originally Posted by WakeZero
We lovingly refer to this little contraption as the X-Box, since it's chains form an X that go out to drive each wheel. What it allows is for two drill motors to be mounted horizontally on the robot to drive the wheels. It also has a nice feature in that it makes the drill motors spin in the same direction (Clockwise and Clockwise, or CCW and CCW) 
We may be taking out the four shafts around the middle one and just putting four or two sprockets on the top of the middle shaft... we would only do this if we thought it was too inefficient, or we were hurting for weight  |
It's clear that it can translate along the ground -- but how does it turn? With two motors powering a single gearbox that drives all four wheels, is differential steering possible?
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