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Re: Universal/Standard Drive Base

Team RUSH (frc27) has used the same universal chassis concept since 2008.

The team has agreed that in order to work as efficiently as possible we will use the same standard chassis design and adapt the rest of the robot to work around it.

In my opinion, many of the most successful teams deploy similar strategies....though I don't know if they actually have an edict stating that they won't bother reviewing other ways to design or build their chassis like we do.

Our base chassis is a simple 6wd. It has no features or options other than wheel size and transmission style.
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