Fantasy Product's-what u wish was made
 

So I have come to points in my time in first where I will encounter a problem that certain slight variations would fix. My question for you is what product do you wish that Andymark, Vex pro, Cross The Road Electronic, ect, would make to assist teams.

My two products that I would love to see are Banebot gear box adapters that could use Bag Motors because many teams have a number of both banebot gearboxs and Bag motors and I sure know I could like to use both together.

Second is a variation of the traditional CIM motor that had a small back shaft and mounting points. This is because encoder mounting is sometimes a pain. With the right encoders we could just stick the one the back of CIM motors and be finshed.

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3/8 bearing rounded shaft with a .191 hole.

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3/8" hex bore versahubs. I ask for this every time lol.
3/8" hex bore sprockets and timing pulleys.
Pre-lightened gears (the 32p ones from WCP would be be useful if they were lighter).

What would you use that for? Elevator?

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Axles and standoffs. Pretty much everywhere.

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Most likely. I suppose for lower-load applications you could make 10-32 dead axle gearboxes, axles, etc.?

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90 degree gearbox the size of a versaplanetary, 3/8 hex output.

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As well as high load applications.

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A good COTS brake solution. Perhaps one from VEX that would interface with their versaplanetary system. This would have saved our team a lot of time and resources this past season.

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You know... Y'all are learning engineering. I'm aware that AM at least will take design ideas from teams (they've done it in the past).

So... You want something to be a COTS offering, how about you make a prototype, do a bit of market research, and see about making a deal with the appropriate company?

Just a thought.


One final item: [geezer]Back in my day, we didn't have these newfangled 3-CIM gearboxes! All we had was drill motors, with drill gearboxes! Had ta make 'em shifting ourselves! COTS parts? HA! Had to build the entire robot, 'cept the KOP! More than 2 CIMS? HA! We was lucky to get that! You young whippersnappers have everything handed to you! Ya wouldn't last 2 days if you had to build all this stuff yourself![/geezer] Incidentally, there's some truth to that... 4 CIMs weren't an option until my third year on a team.

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Yes please. And while were at it, I'd enjoy Colson wheels with integrated sprocket bolt pattern and a 1.125" through hole.

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Consider this a gigantic second to the above suggestion. Given the choice I would prefer a 0.159" hole option over a 0.191" only because I can easily open the hole up if I need that variety. However, BOTH would be absolutely amazing to have.

The time savings for us if we had this variety of shaft would be unreal. Making standoffs is one of the last full blown manual operations we have to do each year.

-Brando

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Captive Ball omnis that can lock and unlock.

An incremental encoder "stage" for a VersaPlanetary that is linked directly to the output shaft.

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AndyMark makes a 3/8" hex hub. It isn't as thin as a versahub, but shortening it is trivially simply on a lathe (plus you're left with a 3/8" hex ID, 1" OD billet which has some utility in unexpected places).

I'd love the new shaft ideas, both 0.159 & 0.191 holes. Our #7 bit is so overworked...

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I was talking to a 900 mentor about this idea this season. Honestly I think one of the biggest barriers to team's using encoders is the mechanical mounting and something so simple to integrate like this would be huge.