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Interesting. 4 cim gearbox, but it would be hard to hang over the wheels. Would you put it paralle to the sides?
Also, how does it work?

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Where do I get the transparent CIMS? Also, do they come in silver instead of gold?

Nice render though-- is the open port in the back the output?

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Beautiful, Solidworks is a majestic beast of the highest degree. I vote solid gold though.

Ignoring the cost/stability issues of a solid gold robot it has lots of pros

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Imagine how easy it would be to market to other teams.

"If you pick us, you can have a gearbox"


Seriously though, this looks GREAT for a render! How long did it take?

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Thank you for the compliments all but,
Actually I will have to give credit for the CAD to my team mate Scott (whos last name escapes me atm) awesome dude btw :) . He was teaching our younger members how to use solidworks and whipped something quick up. So... I sneaked on while he wasn't paying attention had a little fun (Solid works gray gets a little boring) Although the "neon green" didn't work as planned....

Rendering Took about 5 minutes (Photoview 360) we have dell optiplexes Core 2 Duos 3.0Ghz(?)

As for the gearbox it wasn't designed for a drive train rather for a winch. (It was more of demonstration of how to begin to use solidworks the actual gear box is currently being modeled by our younger members)

I really want to just hop on mcmaster carr get some polycarb, and some brass. Could totally go for some steam punk cims now :')

If your reading this scott, hope your not mad :)

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Beautiful! Just Beautiful! Marie

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It looks like and I'm hoping those two plates are identical and one is just rotated 180 degrees to make this gearbox work. If so that's really cool. I don't know if 8 motor drives are ever necessary / a good idea, but this design is a cool way to implement 4 motors. Perhaps for a 4 CIM / 4 Mini or 4 CIM / 4 550 drive.

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I remember a team this year (4034) who's shooter was powered by 4 miniCIMs and so was team 58's.

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Correct!