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Originally posted by Michael Krass
Well, I think there is still an advantage to what Patrick's proposed over what 237 did. Patrick's omnidirectional system has complete freedom over its range of motion. On your robot, Elgin, you can't use all four wheels to move at, say, a 45 degree angle to the robots axis, can you? Patrick's can power all 4 motors at once to move.
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No but we used to be able to do a "death spin" by having all 4 wheels go in the same direction around a circle. Yeah, we stopped that after a bad incident with a broken transmission and chains. lol Not to mention the battery flying off the robot and hitting someone. (that was before we had it totally secured in the frame) oops!!
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Originally posted by Andy Baker
I must say that 857's drive train was sweeeet. They even let me drive it in their pit.
This robot was probably the smoothest-moving FIRST 'bot ever. It is a shame that these guys from Michigan Tech didn't win some technical awards last year, because they deserved it.
Andy B.
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AH HA!!! That is the one!! I have thier video promo that put out after the six weeks, cool as anything I have seen with the "You Spin Me Right Round Baby Right Round!" song in the background!!!