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Re: Carpet for Practice Field
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4. Our team has always scorned casters. Unless you're really short on weight, don't use casters. Just connect the wheels that are motored to the wheels that aren't (with chain). As for improving mobility? it really doesn't. Just think of a shopping cart, there are two casters in the front. It moves forward well enough, but when you need to back up, the cart fish-tails like crazy and you lose control.

5. Speed and mobility is VERY important, especially this year. Imagine you have a bot that takes about .5 second to set up an accurate shot, if there is another bot that is constantly hitting you and you can't get free then you can never get a shot off. But if you were faster and more agile then the defender you can drive away, set up and shoot and keep moving. There are prolly a lot more situation where you want to be very agile, but this one will do.
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Last edited by Shu Song : 12-01-2006 at 15:07. Reason: Lil Lavery beat me to it
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