Winning Drive Train

[Rob]

Well I could go on for a few pages on this one...but I will spare you all.

It seems to me in the few years I have been doing this that what works for each team is different. In general, if you do the simplest thing you feel you can get away with you can spend your time working on the details that make it work really well rather than just making it work at all.

For some teams this means building different things. To us, it meant using kitbot and kit transmissions and then spending our effort on follower wheels and traction control.

To an amazing team like 111, their incredible swerve drive is a given, and they still can spend their effort on just making it work well.

My hat is off to the teams that figured out the drive challenge this year. There were many paths to success, and you can find inspiration in looking at how some of the incredible teams in first got there.

Just remember that you can get just as much inspiration from making a simple system's details work really well as you can from just making a complex system work...