pic: #NotSwerve

[AKSoapy29]

Originally Posted by JohnFogarty

They learned the most important lesson. Anything that can move sideways is a waste of time where you could have been moving forward with more important things.

Swerve to begin with was a waste of time. I think we got everything to build our drive 2-3 weeks in, built both drive trains, and the rest of the time was fixing everything and getting the other robot working. The robots weren't exactly alike, so when we got the code kind of working on the main bot, we deployed it to the shadow and nothing worked. Oh, and I think it took our programmers forever to fine tune everything on one robot, then fine tune it on the other robot. Everything was a pain, especially when the robot wouldn't even move on the field. We wanted maneuverability, but instead....

Oh yeah, and the first shooter was 100% pneumatic, and we were constantly working on it. Tip for anyone in the future: Don't use a pneumatic shooter unless you get it working REALLY well.