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Originally Posted by Stephen Kowski
Haven't I seen this somewhere before?? |
Actually the BeachBots went through a couple of sets of these wheels during BUILD on our pratice bot. We also broke a couple during competition on the real robot.
They have the qualities we wanted and are inexpensive enough that we pretty much regard them as expendibles. The fact that our drive train is set up for quick wheel changes might have helped in this. If it took an hour to change a wheel we might be more wary of using them.
I personally showed one of our broken wheels to Mark Koors. At the time it was the first he had seen. He was going to think about how best to fix the problem. He probably has it nailed by now.