Strange Swerve 4.0 Triple Strange 1533

[Bennett548]

Have you had a chance to run this under load?

My concern is that the axial force of the bevel gears has to travel all the way thru the churro standoffs, thru the delrin bearings, and then up the plates holding the bearings. I would imagine the bevel gears will push away from each other quite a bit, which greatly reduces the efficiency and will wear down the gears much faster than normal.

I would suggest taking the plates that carry the horizontal bevel shaft bearing and extend them upwards, screw in a cross plate and put in a bearing that rides on the 3/8" hex shaft output of the versaplanetary. That way the axial force of the bevel gears won't push them apart very much.

Otherwise it is very cool. Put up some videos when you start driving!

[iyportne]

It's alive! Strange Swerve 4.0 made its first public appearance at the 2016 NC FRC Workshops.

https://youtu.be/VbXx9Hj13eI

Base as seen weighs in at 34.6 lb without battery.

[ToddF]

We've been looking for a swerve module buildable with our resources. Our swerve drive project has been on hold until we got access to a CNC machine. With this being waterjet cut, we finally have a viable path to building our own swerve modules. I think we've got our next summer development project. I can't wait to see how this holds up in competition.

[Brainiac33]

During our build process, we tried to stay as organized and precise as possible, we made these layouts at a 1:1 scale with the actual pieces just so we had layouts of all our parts.



Here is a google docs link to a much higher-res pdf if thats easier to download and use.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4...3hrcTJWa1AyTlE

[Brainiac33]

In order to make swerve even more accessible for any team, we wanted to make our code public and available for anyone to use on their prototypes and designs. Here is the link to our github: https://github.com/ecgrobotics/Strange-Swerve