Mecanum or 6WD

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Can you point to a video of a mecanum drive that's ever done that?

Not exactly, I do have a couple of pictures of 2337's mecanum drive shoving HOT up the bump though.

The key to either system is having a skilled driver who communicates effectively with the coach and his other driver. There are benefits and drawbacks to everything and we must be able to effectively figure out which downsides we can live with and which we can't.

I personally am doing either 6wd or 8wd this year, we talked about mecanums (3450/314) but we are building multiple bots and doing that makes cost highly prohibitive. (4 gearboxes + 4 mecanum wheels for each bot) I am also an alumni from the Martian "defense" era. The best defense is having more traction than your opponent. For the record we also considered doing a swerve drive but buying 3 Revolution modules or 3 WildSwerve modules was out of the question price wise.