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Originally Posted by Stephen of REX
Mecanum was our backup plan for swerve drive! 1727 started the season looking towards swerve drive because it is awesome. However, we quickly figured out that you should not try swerve for the first time during build season. While we could have built one, it would have put us behind schedule, and with this snowstorm lopping one week off of our build season, I am glad we went with mecanum.
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To add on this, you can see that 1727 was focused on omni-directional movement. The obvious downside, lack of power, was why we preferred swerve. Mecanum does take the edge over swerve when it comes to ease of assembly and maintenance, which is why we eventually chose to pursue Mecanum drive.