[FRC Blog] - NASA Grants and Something New for 2015

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

What I meant was, we won't see the CIMs disappear. There's too deep of an investment in them for there to be a major shift away from them. Imagine teams being told that all their CIMs were illegal, and the new motors were XX, available from YY. How would that play out?

I'd hope the 2.5" CIM motors would not go away barring a major size change. They are motors that you can abuse all day long and won't smoke. Honestly, it's the single biggest contributor to having most every robot driving most matches. CIMs are NEAR indestructible and I <3 them for it.