I think that it is really cool how you are using our drawings! I know we put the fact that we have them avalaible to the public in our chairman's entry every year, but this is actually the first time I have heard of it being used.
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Originally Posted by Billfred
2) Why roll your own omnis over getting a set from AndyMark or elsewhere? (There are valid reasons for it, perhaps even answered by the first question, but it's nice to know.)
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A lot of Andy Mark designs are based on a design that the TechnoKats have used and has been proven to work. This is one great example as the AM omni wheels for the most part are the same design. I think it is cool again that teams are taking the "old fashioned" approach to building their robot. Even though I love Andy and Mark, I praise teams that don't go out and buy the product that anyone can use. In stead they make their own modifications and they come up with something that hasn't been made ever before. Even if it uses a drawing that has been put into production, they can never make it the same as the mass produced product.
This is the whole way that many AM products are made, as I have said before. A great example of this is our robot from last year. We wanted to incorporate the two speed transmission into our robot's frame, so we designed our own shifter using the guts of a gen2 AM. We added a couple of extras to it like an encoder and wha-la the first working prototypes of the AM SuperShifter were born a year before even being put into production. That is why I feel that more teams should go out and try to make these things on their own because that will only inspire more people to make newer better products that other teams can use.
EDIT: Also, let me know what changes you make, I will be interested to know how these are improved upon!