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Re: Drive Systems... ...The FIRST Arms Race?

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Originally Posted by Budda648 View Post
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Does anyone remember the first crab steer systems? Did they have a million motors?
Team 148 had a drive train for Toroid Terror in 1997 that they could turn sideways and spin the goal tree after docking with it. It wasn't exactly swerve, but it was a close cousin.

Team 47 had Swerve on its 1998 robot for Ladder Logic*.

Going from memory that year there were 2 drill motors, 2 Seat Motors, 2 window motors and 2 Delphi Power Sliding Door motor.

Joe J.
*We won 3 regionals that year and were very competitive at the Championships. That was the last year that they had 1-on-1-on-1 game format with seeding on Friday and a Double Elimination tourney with everyone in it on Saturday. For those who where there they probably remember it as the year with the Looser's Bracket from Hell. There were about 10 really great teams that ended up in the Looser's Bracket and only one was getting out to the semi-final round. I think it ended up being the TechnoKats and they went on to win it all that year.

As another aside, Raul-the-Magnificent and the rest of the Wildstang crew probably recall it has the year of the Egg Shaped Ball that cost them a National Title. They had their patented suction ball holder protecting that 1 ball they had on the Ladder with a bunch of doublers in the middle goal. The only the Egg Shaped Ball wasn't touching both rails!!! Into the Looser's Bracket from Hell they went...
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