Swerve Drive

After going to the FRC (First Robotics Competition) Championships, I got to see a few other successful robot designs and the drive trains that teams used.  One of these was the swerve drive, which I thought was particularly interesting because of the maneuverability that it provided.  Today I attempted to build my own swerve drive out of LEGO.  After some experimenting, I got it to work, and I fine tuned it to make it more effective.  

Here is a clip of the robot driving around.  (I'm still working on driving it well)

Robotics Championships

My robotics team, MVRT 115 attended the First Robotics Competition world championships in St. Louis this year!  Our team was in the Archimedes division and we had many strong performances, but a few unfortunate robot and code issues lowered our average too much to recover from.  It was still a ton of fun and I hope out team goes again next year.  Unfortunately my camera isn't great, but here are some photos of the event.