Getting off the swerve topic - really interested if people had mentioned 08 148 yet. With their win in 08 with 1114 and 217 and subsequent CAD release, in my FRC years it seems they heavily influenced many of us back then to dive into sheet metal construction, moreso than prior years. I remember a crap ton of people posting first time sheet metal designs after that. (maybe it was 2009 and 2010 IFI CAD releases? I can’t remember exactly).
Also, someone who has been here longer, correct me if I’m wrong, but do you think 148, as well as 973, popularized the public release of full robot CAD? If so, which specific robots were posted? I want to say 08/09 148 made it popular in addition to 2011 973.
Whoever helped influence more people to release full robot CAD is a true revolutionary. If memory is correct, CAD libraries from 34 and 1323 were also a huge part of this.
Thoughts?
Also fun fact on the 1323 swerve stuff, I have parts from an @R.C designed swerve somewhere in my parents house dating back to ~2010? Used for a senior design project of mine in highschool.