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Re: pic: All Terrain Swerve 1

Thanks for all the interest

I admit that the CIM's are very close to the ground, however, the treads aren't very wide at the moment and it would be easy to go or 3 inch treads instead of one and a half inches. As for the CIM's being on the outside that was just a mistake on my part and I will fix that soon

I have thought a lot about the turning problem and had a couple of ideas. I thought about using another set of motors on each module to lift it up onto just one of the two pulleys. I also thought about making the shock absorbers to out of pneumatic cylinders, and put valves on it so that it could lift the modules onto one pulley. The other advantage of these is that it would make it easier to get up ledges.

I do like the idea of using three pulleys to get one point of contact but I'm weary of this because it wouldn't be stable in this set up with the second axis of turning. This is actually just a fun little CAD project that I'm working on. I'm trying to put together a bunch of different wierd drive trains together to give the younger kids on the team some ideas for next year.


Again thanks for all the input

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