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Re: Who's done the math?

If you add more wheels to the robot that are powered, you would get more force right? So then here's a couple questions.

1) Why not use every motor in the kit powering as many wheels? Obviously not very feasible and a bunch of other reasons why not to do this, but what would the maximum force be that you could generate?

2) Or, just have your drive motors connected to more than 1 wheel, like a 4 wheel-drive system with 2 wheels (or more). What would the benefits be?

Just curious, I understand about the higher complexity/weight and all that stuff.
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