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Re: pic: Banebots- AndyMark crab module
Eugene, actually you don't. All you need for a swerve drive setup is 135 degrees of travel which can be contained within the bot. Motor reversing and programming gives you everything else.
Greg its a nice combination, but here are my concerns:
Clearance within the robot is still a problem you'd have to design for a very open robot near the pods. More importantly, the banebots motor and trans seems to be a lot of extra weight hanging off to one side to be trying to swerve. Once you are in motion its not so bad but, but you still need to have a pretty hefty motor, reduction, as well as support structure for all of this to happen.
-wayne
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