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Originally Posted by adampaskowitz
OK, here's an embarrassingly basic question, embarrassingly late in the season - we have all these motors with round shafts sticking out of them, and realized that were not sure how to connect them to gearing, and then to wheels and other potentially spinnable things. Can anyone tell me how to build a gearbox and connect the motors to the gears, or, more likely, point me to a helpful resource that would give step-by-step directions? Are there ready-made parts available somewhere, since we have very limited machinery & tooling?
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One site will help you with almost everything (or two sites)
Andymark.com has all kinds of gear boxes and other robotics things. They are a sponsor of FIRST.
Also the banebot motors you will have to use their gear boxes banebots.com (andymark only has a few that would work with these motors)
Because you are a rookie team i STRONGLY do not recommend attempting to make your own gear box. My team has been around for 11 years and we still dont make our own gear boxes.