pic: 1675's REAL IRI Upgrade

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Yes, that's true, but it's not worthless either. I made a thread a few months back called "Video of Mecanum Drive Running Circles Around Traction Drives" asking for some footage. I'm still looking.

well, I am lookign for a video of a tank bot crushing a mecanum bot to bits against a wall. just like the video on your wish list, you won't see it because you are looking for too big of an advantage.

the reason a lot of top teams use:

traction: they have used it for so long and thats what they are used to and have plenty of spare parts for

crab: they have plentiful human and/or capital resources or they have used crab for so long they already know the drivetrain design before the beginning of the season.

i do recall a pure mecanum system being a division finalist. curie 2008. 2171 robodogs from crown point, IN. look at some of thier footage on thebluealliance from boilermaker regional... they had that crab drive rocking... and that was under the IFI system.

octanum sounds like a good offseason project but a waste of weight and expenses... the key to mecanum is speed... gear it high (stock toughbox nano will do) and go... you can have a scale-down button if it is too quick by itself.