pic: Team 221 LLC. - Wild Swerve Module

[GarrettF2395]

I come from a team with very limited resource's (Our best tool is a drill press that hardly works).
For months now, we has been trying to figure out someway to make a swerve drive of our own.
But due to a lack of equipment, we haven't been able to come up with a product that would work in competition.

But after seeing this, I'm really excited, because we may get our chance!
Having a working swerve drive that we can assemble, study, tinker with, and program, would be amazing!
You can only learn so much from looking at pictures, and listening to people talk about how they built their drive.

This product would give my team the hands on learning they need to design and build their own swerve in the future.
If we are able to purchase this product in the off season, with enough time to debug and work out the kinks; AND we get a machine shop as a sponsor, I believe we would build our own next season (Game and GDC permitting).

So to those of you that think this isn't in the spirit of FIRST, because it decreases the learning experience.
I believe that, at least with my team, it provokes learning.
It gives you the best learning tool out there, a hands on tool.
A tool that for some teams, like mine, was thought to be out of reach at the moment.