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Originally Posted by vivek16
I have actually been thinking about that. Couldn't you lock the wheels of a crab in a 4wd orientation and (if you have each side independently driven) just turn like a 4wd bot?
Has anyone attempted this?
-Vivek
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We did, We had one gen2 driving the front two wheels and one on the back two. So if we wanted to "tank drive" we just pointed the wheels sideways and drove around like a wide bot (wider=less effort to turn). This setup also enabled us to create "drift" buttons, We had 2 buttons on the joystick base and each one cut power to the respective transmission. So when we were going sideways we could kill a gearbox and the other one would drag its end around. This enabled us to effectively reorient on the fly, which greatly decreased our lap time.