pic: Team 1293's Window Motor Drivetrain 2

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Steve P

You will be pushed around on the field and will have almost no toruqe, not to rag on you but last year I made a claw with the window motors and I could stop it with my hand.

Believe me, we weren't pushed around on the field. And don't forget that a good driver will win over a good robot any day of the week. (This was the case in at least one match of ours.) And Bob had a few distinct advantages, namely that of low current draw (we only had the two window motors and a van door being operated) and being built like a brick. I still say it's a good robot. With a proper arm, it'd be a great robot.

As for why, Ryan, call it rookie desperation. It was week four or five or something like that, and we needed some motors we could mount up and go with. (Like in the original post, we tried the others with only limited success.) Maybe we should've made a bigger to-do at Palmetto, but ah well. It sure was a blast.