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Re: Using Multiple Kinds Of Motors
It was clear that a standard tank drive system could do everything in Breakaway and more this year. If you want an effective drive, take what you had last year and make it do the things it didn't. Conforming to an intelligent design is almost always a good idea.

And if you think being a Mechanical guy is easy, you are right. But being a great one takes just as much work as being a great programmer. The only way to really know what you are doing mechanically with an FRC robot is hands on experience, reading good mech threads on CD, learning a lot of physics and engineering concepts, and being able to weave it all together into a basis for common sense decisions (which, although known to be 'common', never is).

If you intend on building a winning robot, simplicity in the drive is one of the best ways of getting there. Ask 1114, they have been doing it since 2005.
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