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Unread 22-04-2009, 18:12
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Re: AM' swerve modules

I agree with what Art said about swerve being over the line of what I think teams should be able to buy.

In addition to that I feel that AM carrying a swerve module would lead to almost as many robots with bad or non-functional drivetrains as robots with improved drivetrains. There is a lot more to building a swerve drive than just the design of the module. I think that AM carrying a swerve module would lead many teams to think that swerve is now "easy" and try and implement it without having or devoting the necessary resources to make it effective.

EDIT: Looks like Bob beat me to a very similar message
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