pic: AndyMark Mecanum Wheels

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by M. Krass

Truthfully, we're not building this to impress the jaded folks of the FIRST world. We see this as a potentially beneficial platform upon which to design robots as well as a fascinating, interesting demonstration robot that'll be able to engage people by immediately making them ask, "How did you do that?" Because we saved some time by buying this wheels from AndyMark, the notion of an omnidirectional platform is no less 'cool' to 95% of the people who're going to see it run.

I understand that. That's not the point I was making.

There was a day when omni wheels, multi speed transmissions, and swerve drive were the most innovative thing you had seen on a FIRST robot. Now, these items are considered common and average thanks to teams releasing their designs and producers such as AM selling them. Now that the bar has been raised once again, I am anxious to see if anyone can step up to the plate in 2007 to knock my socks off.