Rookie Season 2014 - Lessons Learned

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Chief Hedgehog

The second item is to create a strong drive train. If you have a strong drive train heading into the season, you are miles ahead of most teams competing at your regional (unless you are in Michigan or the Toronto area). We were a step away from including a Butterfly drive for this year - but we missed the mark (because we were trying to do too much).

We did well over the last two years - with terrible drives. We are now in the midst of perfecting our "BeckerFly" drive as well as a tank drive using the 3Cim Ball Shifter. We will be completing these two over the next couple of weeks.

I'm gonna have to disagree with this here. For a vast majority of teams, it's much more beneficial to put your resources into other things besides developing a drivetrain. As a learning excercise, sure, it can be great, but the kitbot is an excellent drivetrain that so many teams, both new and veteran, definitely undervalue.