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Re: pic: Independent Swerve Module

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This looks truly amazing. Ive tried to convince my team to swerve drive but they always say no How much does a setup like that weigh? Also are you using a cim to drive it?
We did swerve last year (our rookie year) and it worked pretty well (I thought coming onto the team this past October & seeing it in action at Cow Town), but my team also said otherwise. I would suggest that you make this an off-season project as it requires so much time (which is what we did before our rookie build season).
From a drivers perspective, our Driver said that he could have probably utilized swerve better if he had more practice time (and we didn't have to under go a second build season). Sure swerve is pretty cool (we saw a lot of people stopping by to see our module at regionals), but it also is kinda overkill depending on what you need to do.
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Good luck to all who try Swerve!
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Re: pic: Independent Swerve Module

We used swerve for the first time last year.. and I had to say that it took us 4 weeks to set up and ended up being fairly disadvangtious to us. We had alot of problems setting it up and then fine tuning it to fix the problems. We did not use a waterjet but i assume usuing that would save you so much more time than what happened to us. Swerve is truly an amazing drive system if it can be made properly. This year we are usuing a modified kitbot on steriods.
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