[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by Pat Roche

For flat game (no climbing) the simplest and most efficient drive train that you can build is two powered wheels that are center aligned with "skid wheels" such as hard plastic caster wheels that don't turn.

This was our platform in 2005 -- probably the most interesting year in 1294's history. The robot performed perfectly, all the time -- except when the team forgot to plug in PWM cables, or unplugged the compressor and didn't turn it back on, or when the drive team, which changed practically from match to match, didn't know what to do with the robot. It was a perfect storm of a simple, reliable robot that didn't LOOK reliable due to poor teamwork. A sobering lesson (and not my fault -- really).