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Re: pic: 114 drive module design

Can you talk more about each stage of the gearbox and their reductions? It's interesting to see how other teams decide to gear their robots for the sake of comparison, I think.

Also, why have you used such heavy rectangular tubing on each side of the wheels instead of, say, plate or channel? What's your overall weight for a module?

I've been tearing my hair out recently trying to distill a reliable, simple, easy to build 6WD module not unlike this for the past two months or so. I'm not quite there yet, but I'm getting closer, and it's interesting to see how others solve the same problem.
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