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Originally Posted by kramarczyk
Hardware alone does not a robot make.
As Yoda once said, "Control, control, you must learn control."
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I am a hardware person, but I couln't agree more.
Chris, I'm going to have to go with Craig on this one. It's not really about making compettions fair, it's not about equal opportunity or teams doing similar designs. It's about learning and teaching...so to the point...is swerve cool? I guess so. But let me warn teams out there, swerve isn't always as big an advantage as it seems to be. There's a reason only 3 different teams have on nationals with a swerve drive. Swerve is a weight commitment that can severely take away from other parts of the robot if not done properly. I'm not saying don't do swerve, I'm just saying it isn't as big an advantage as people think.(heck my teams done swerve the past two years). Skid steer teams are at pretty much no diadvantage to swerve teams. It's hard to tell on regolith, but in 2008 the two most manuverable teams were 1114 and 968, both skid steer teams.
Swerve is cool to do and it's a good learning experience, but don't think you're at any sort of dissadvantage if you can't do it.
That being said, that swerve module looks really nice and it's great to see teams experimenting with things like this, good work.