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Originally Posted by JamesCH95
...the BASIC Stamp IFI robot controller... which doesn't have negative numbers, let alone trig functions.
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In the 2002 off-season, my team built a swerve drive. It had 4 drive motors and 2 steering motors, and a PBASIC processor and its 63 byte variable space. We still have it, in the basement, but most of the motors are gone.
Speaking of the kitbot and AM, the IFI Kitbot and IFI Kit transmissions (like the AM toughboxes, not identical) came around in 2005. Before that, there was kit material for a frame, and drill motors that had transmissions you could use. The AM toughboxes came to the kit in 2008, and the AM kitbot frame in 2009.
As for transmissions, before that, you built them. Dr. Joe taught us all how to build DeWalt transmissions for CIM motors, so for we used those for reliable servo shifting before we went to AM shifters. And we still use them for non-drive things.