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Re: Drivetrain First Thoughts?

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
If your argument it that scoring in 2007 was easy with a 6WD, you might want to look closer at how teams were doing it. It looks to me like the 6WD bots were approaching the scoring pegs from the side to line up and drop. Which worked really well with a widely spaced round grid.

This year's grid is flat, and more tightly spaced. I think approaching a peg from the side is going to be significantly more difficult than it was in 2007.
Your post really made me say 'hmm'. It's a very valid concern.

Yet after a bit of thinking, I think robots will not NEED to approach from the side this year due to the very large differences in the plates on the front of the pegs. The room for error this year is quite a bit bigger for the Circle, and still rather large for the Square.
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