pic: The most unlikely wheels on Einstein

[RoboChair]

Originally Posted by ratdude747

Nope, but 2171 was running them and were Finalists on Curie that year. IIRC 2015 was the first year of mecanums (and Kiwi drive) on Einstein.

Team 1671 the Bird Brains were the fist team to actually field a mecanum drive base on Einstein carpet in all of FRC in 2015.

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by ollien

How did 2171 get a hold of them a year before?

That's hysterical, regardless. I was joking.

I was speaking of Mecanums, not Lunacy wheels.

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by RoboChair

Team 1671 the Bird Brains were the fist team to actually field a mecanum drive base on Einstein carpet in all of FRC in 2015.

IIRC 2512 was also running Mecanums?

At least from what I saw on hopper they were...

edit- yes they were:



It's a tie then as they both played in Match 1 of Einstein 2015... Unless you want to count physical touching of the carpet, which I think is missing the point

[Chris is me]

Two hot takes for this thread which somehow became a discussion about mecanum wheels:

1. We won't see mecanum wheels actually touch the carpet on Einstein again for quite some time, if ever - at least at North Champs, maybe the depth at South Champs is limited enough to make it work?

2. Mecanum drive, properly coded with a good gyro and control scheme, was almost strictly better than a traction drive in 2015, particularly if you played in the landfill. Teams that had the ability to implement mecanum, but chose not to, were at a disadvantage, but made up for it in other areas (intake, etc).