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Re: pic: Team 691 Drivetrain CAD

Thanks for your comments and concerns.

My team is in a better situation this year. We have more mentors, team members, a bigger build area, more money, better machining, basically better everything.
And then to add that, our sponsors are being extremely supportive this year and as a result we are making two different robots this season. One of them is a simple drive train, mecanum or 6WD (it can go between the two by changing wheels and adding the gear boxes). And the second is the swerve drive. We are also making a second robot to practice autonomous after ship. In other words we are working on both a simple and "stretch robot" this year.

I am handing the swerve modules off to sponsors tonight, and I will be handing the frame off either tomorrow or wednesday so yeah we are well on our way. And we are only directing a small amount of the team's resources to the swerve drive, basically me and some of the mentors, while the rest of the team and mentors work on manipulators. We are almost done prototyping our lift out of aluminum and are beginning to work on the grabber. Our programmers have already started planning how the code will work.
In other words we are doing pretty well right now (at least for my team).

But about the render it is old. I finished that on friday. I shall post a more up-to-date version soon.

But I appreciate all of your concern and advice.

So thanks.
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Re: pic: Team 691 Drivetrain CAD

Good luck Garret. Make sure you give your drivers lots of practice time
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