DRIVE SYSTEM

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Posted by Justin Ridley at 03/19/2001 3:31 PM EST


Engineer on team #221, MI Roboworks, from Michigan Technological University.


In Reply to: Re: DRIVE SYSTEM
Posted by Matt Leese on 03/18/2001 3:11 PM EST:



I completely disagree. I recommend building anything and
everything you can before the six weeks. Drive systems
in particular are a good thing to work on since your
going to need one every year and they are the least
dependent system on the game (although the game can
still affect it's design as Matt pointed out). Try
building a strong 4wd chassis, something many teams use
year after year. After that, work on a 2wd or something
more radical. Regardless its going to help you gain
experience building systems, teach you about
drivetrains and give you another chassis to use in
driving practice. Try other things such as arms and
lifts as well.

Offseaon R&D, as our team calls it, is a way to build
the experience needed so you can start rising to the
level of these awesome powerhouse teams, whose
technology can simply blow your mind.

Now under the legal issue, nobody says these have to be
the actual systems you use on a future robot, but after
designing and building one once, you should be able to
easily do another in the six weeks.

Justin Ridley - MI Roboworks