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Re: Your thoughts on Mecanum wheels....

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Originally Posted by Tytus Gerrish View Post
more moving parts. more things that can break
That's what I'm most worried about. My team has a tendency of having things break when we MOST need it!

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Originally Posted by BigJ View Post
also, your programmers will need a lot of time to develop and test (also trig skills)

1675 used mecanum fro the first time last year, and although it was hard, I had fun learning all the vector theory to program it.
Also with the programming, we have almost no knowledge on, so I'm definately worried about this as well. We do have some people learning it though as we speak.
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