Team 3313 Practice Run #2

[Alex.q]

Originally Posted by jblay

Your drive could be much faster, see if there is something small that you can do to make it better. I would stay away from changing your wheel size because that could hurt your very accurate shooting. Something like a different sprocket or pulley on your wheels or gearbox depending on what you use to gear it faster could give you another run to and from the hp station a match. With the motors you have and the fact that pushing doesn't seem to be that big of a deal you could go up to 13-14 feet per second as opposed to what looks like 8-9 feet per second.

Why not change all your wheels to omni wheels? This will allow you to turn about the center of your robot instead of around basically the end of it, this will make your turning tighter and faster.

My guess is that they want to be able to push if need be. I personally think that 13-14fps is a bit fast for a single speed, and I would personally rather have the traction wheels rather than omnis. Its all up to the team to decide what they want to do with the drive.

I would also second someone comment about using the pyramid to align yourself. Remember, you can't be rammed or pushed if you are touching the pyramid (right?), so it somewhat functions as the key did last year.