pic: Rhino Drive Train

[eedoga]

Originally Posted by Munchskull

Just curious, what made you choose Rhino treads instead of designing your own system. From the looks of the bumper mounts you have looks like you're more than capable of building your own tread system. Not judging just curious what made you choose to buy one instead. Also sweet bumper Mounts.

So our team is capable, but we have two things working against us. First off, we are young this year and if FTC was any indicator, we have trouble getting things finished on time.

Second, we have never worked with treads before and would rather rely on someone else's experience the first time out.

This saved us a ton of time. The kids still got to learn by building the pneumatic drive train (our team built both.) and we'll have a robot driving around pretty soon if all goes well. I see this as the slippery slope of COTS mechanisms, but one I am willing to slip on for now.

Edoga