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Originally Posted by Dennis Jenks
I don't know about that..........some would say that 254 has done ok since standardizing their drivetrain in 2004.
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Although we have used extremely similar drivebases each of the past seven years, we don't go into the build season restricting ourselves to just one style. Although the style of manufacture will probably stay the same (because that is what we can build easily), the drivetrain design could change drastically.
For example, in 2009, we spent weeks deliberating on whether to build a long or wide robot. Eventually, we decided on long not because it was what we had done before, but because we believed it allowed us to optimize our superstructure. In retrospect, that may have not been the right decision, but that is a debate for another day.