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Drive Train
This year we used a standard VEX based West Coast Drive. Was a 6 Wheel Drop Center 6 Mini Cim drive train. This robot continued to use the AndyMark HiGrip wheels for driving. The frame on the front of the robot had a cutout to allow for Cargo balls to enter the robot easily, and the Baseplate was a simple 1/4” polycarbonate sheet to add some rigidity to the frame.
For the most part the drive train was pretty bullet proof. One concern early on in the season was how the wheels would hold up coming off of hab level 2 in autonomous, though we never saw damage from that. We did see regular damage from trying to “yeet climb” where we would drive full speed using the ramp of level 1 hab to barely make it up to level 2 of the hab. Several wheels cracked over time because of this, and we had to replace them.