Mecanum Drive - Help

[Rupnick]

Originally Posted by Smoking_Gun

Hi,
Our team wants to use Mecanum Drive this year!
We have a few questions to ask before we could buy this.
We would appreciate if a team that has used this drive system would contact us by email (dark_key@walla.com) or post thiers in here.

Thanks!
Tal Saiag #Neat-Team 1943

Yes, Wait until kickoff to decide. My Team will hopefully be doing Mecanum Drive again this year unless the game calls for a different drive. things to remeber with mecanum is that you have almost no ability to climb anything like ramps or any of that. Most of the time you could get pushed around ,but we avoided that this year by just using that fancy sideways movment to go around others. Another thing, most people would probly say you can't play defence with mecanam but, this year we (1675) proved that wrong. Althought you may not be able to push other robots around it is very easy to just get in the way and stay there. If the robot you are defenceing has a normal tank style drive it's pretty much impossible for them to get away.

If you have any questions just email me G.Rupnick@gmail.com Either I can help or i can refer you to another member of the team who can if I can't.