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The needle bearings are making me think something like a roller claw - a large diameter shaft in an area with plate too small for full size bearings...

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Neat stuff, it's fun to try to piece together a design with only a few of the pieces shown. I'm assuming from the odd bearing sizes and frame gussets that this is some kind of drivetrain with rotating wheel modules, but I can't figure out how your previously posted gears and pneumatic cylinders fit in. My money is on some bizarre type of shifting approach for transmissions that will drive coaxial modules, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's something even more off-the-wall.

I anticipate the full reveal, looks fun! .stp file would be appreciated of course. :)

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Adam teased me with a small assembly of one of the components of the whole robot a few days ago. The full reveal will have you all on the edge of your seats or should I say computer chairs. :cool:

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That's a lot of neat stuff! And good luck at the off season events

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You know, I bet it's a unicorn drive with some kind of super cool lift on top. Adam's been making a lot of posts about 8 motor swerve drives. The waterjetted gears he showed mesh with a window motor, which is a pretty common choice for steering. The tiny shifter pinion is probably for the transmissions, which use something awesome no one's seen before.

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Sorry Chris, those post are in reference to an updated version of this guy. We added two more steering motors and two more drive gearboxes to play with.