13-01-2010, 23:32
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AKA: Pinecone
 FRC #0228 (GUS Robotics); FRC #2170 (Titanium Tomahawks) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 7,673
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Re: Swerve vs. Mech?
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Originally Posted by Alexis Howell
Yeah. Plus mecanum wheels are really expensive. A set of four from the andy marks site is 700+ dollars.
This year our team is really considering a holonomic drive, we've got most of the resources collected from the past couple of years. Downside's lack of traction. Also worried about how difficult this would be to drive...
Anyone has experience with this drive base?
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1714 did it in 2008 and it was the worst drive base we ever had. Though part of it was code issues, it was way too easy to push around and extremely vulnerable to defense. The robot would over spin almost every turn. I've heard mecanum is a bit better, but I doubt the team will ever do a holonomic drive ever again for anything.
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