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Originally Posted by llamadon
We are very excited for North Star! We worked out some of the issues with our drive-train, and hopefully will be able to move on the field all our matches (knock on wood  ) Ps. Don't do swerve drive |
I was wondering what the deal was until somebody else mentioned you had swerve drive this year. It seemed like your collector and catapult worked well in the videos. I expect that 2169 will show up and be really formidable like usual.
Our experience is that drives can give us gremlins even if we think we're picking something simple. I can only imagine all of the evil things that a swerve drive can do to bite you.
967 also has some tweaks to make on Thursday. I'm guessing that a lot of teams have been busy in the last month - it will be very interesting to see what everyone brings. I did some more poking around the web to see what some of those 44 teams that haven't competed yet have been up to. Definitely some good robots in that bunch, too - can't wait to see the whole lot of them.
And the only thing that can really measure that is when you look a kid in the eye, say "We've got a problem..." and you see them smiling, "Bring it on." - dtengineering [more] 
24-03-2014, 14:38
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