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		+	During his four years as a 1640 mentor, Ben Kellom made enormous contributions to the team; especially (but not limited to) our machining processes, quality, equipment, workflow, and (most importantly) how we think about machining as we design our robots.  In his role, Ben was a key driver in the development of our swerve drive technology.  Ben's employer, Edgetech, graciously sponsored the team by machining the pivot (and other) parts.
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Revision as of 14:42, 27 January 2015

We made the decision to stay with swerve drive for the 2015 robot. But Recycle Rush as a very different game than Aerial Assist, leading to different drive train requirements. We intend to build stacks of totes within our robot. Blazing speed and acceleration were seen to be detrimental. Fine control, on the other hand, will be essential. In view of this, the concepts the team had been developing to increase speed were not adopted. Furthermore Mini-CIMs were used in lieu of CIMs to drive the robot.

With the loss of Ben Kellom as mentor and Edgetech as sponsor, we redesigned our swerve module to reduce the machine time requirements and to bring as much of the machining in-house as practical.

Reduced Machining

During his four years as a 1640 mentor, Ben Kellom made enormous contributions to the team; especially (but not limited to) our machining processes, quality, equipment, workflow, and (most importantly) how we think about machining as we design our robots. In his role, Ben was a key driver in the development of our swerve drive technology. Ben's employer, Edgetech, graciously sponsored the team by machining the pivot (and other) parts.

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