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Originally Posted by Chris Marra
ultimately the combination of a wide robot with a fast unloading mechanism was deadly. As long as the drivetrain was controllable enough to pick up balls, and eventually pin, that was all that was needed to win.
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That's a neat feature of this year's game...with limited traction, we decided early on to not spend much time on the drivetrain, but put our effort into making the robot pick up balls quickly and unload them quickly.
Some qualitative data....we used the kit drivetrain, completely, one CIM per side, toughboxes, two wheels per side, kit sprockets, bearings, axles, spacers, and chain. But our driver noted after watching videos of our robot in action: "Wow, we're slow!" so we ordered some 20 tooth sprockets to replace the kit 15 tooth transmission sprockets, and made the robot faster in Atlanta.