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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
Dave, have you ever considered that perhaps having a rock solid drive system would be beneficial to something complex? Perfection of a system comes not when you can add nothing more but instead when you can remove nothing. As you said, you are a programmer, as a programmer you aren't terribly familiar with mechanical systems (this is an assumption). Perhaps you should start by figuring out what you can remove from last years drive train to make it better. This would allow you to learn more (which will help you in the future when you show us your awesome new drive system) and help your team because a better drive system is ALWAYS a good thing.
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Our drive system was very basic, I mean very basic... 6 wheels with 2 motors, what can you take away from that? I did not like how it was so basic, it was too much of a conformist approach for me. Of course, me being the new kid with no idea how the competition would be, I did not speak out as much as I should have. It was a terrible system, can't go over bumps, can't drive under tunnel (well it can but it can take a while to get it right). Now the leader graduated (he never liked my ideas LOL) I can step it up even more.
I might even hold off on forcing my ideas a bit though, me talking too much last year might have intimidated some people.
Yea I am not a very mechanical person, well its not awfully hard to learn.