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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
If you're printing your own vectored intake wheels anyways, you should totally experiment with the roller angle to see what shoves the balls sideways the fastest. If I'm understanding Ether's mecanum kinematics paper and reasoning correctly (questionable propositions, both) then making the rollers more perpendicular should move the balls sideways faster. Maybe. Completely perpendicular or parallel both obviously fail, so maybe 45 is the fastest, but it just feels like something else should be.
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Ooh, I like this idea. Do you know of anyone that's made custom mecanums for drive wheels that are anything other than 45°? You could do some really interesting drives that either have more or less power when strafing than usual.
Course, they're still a waste of time. But that's beside the point.