Recently my team has been considering buying parts to make 2910’s MK2 Swerve Drive Module. Would it be legal to use this for the actual competition?
Yes
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Yes. The intent of the rule stating that teams may use their own designs year-to-year so long as they post them publicly is also there to allow other teams the same benefit of using previously made designs.
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That said if you haven’t actually gotten a swerve running around and put the development time into the programming etc on it, even with the convenience of buying the MK2 i would highly recommend not running swerve in 2020.
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I concur. If a team has never done swerve before, they have missed the cut off time for development .
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Even for a team that’s on their 10th year of swerve we were dangerously close to the cut off time for swerve. I can’t imagine a new swerve team spending even less time.
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What kinds of criteria do you have for deciding/feeling comfortable using it for 2020 after 10 years of experience?
This was only because we’re using a brand new CVT swerve designed this summer. If we were using 2019’s design which has been iterated over a few years we would probably feel comfortable using it again without it meeting any specific criteria.
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It depends on how much time and resources you have. Given 4 or 5 students and a couple informed mentors in 3 hour class periods form now until kick-off, I think its possible. In fact, having a design is half the trouble.
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“Steal from the best, invent the rest!”
But seriously do not plan on running swerve without having used it outside of competition season first. A drivetrain will not win you a competition, but a drivetrain can most certainly LOSE you a competition!
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This was really helpful. I’ll let my team know and we will make a decision. Thank you!
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