[DampRobot]

I'm quite ticked off by the OP. I hate to criticize a first day poster, but this is clearly a post designed only to call attention to his brilliance.

OP, here's my advice for you. Take a large helping of humble pie. There are lots of brilliant engineers and students who have been plugging away at the problem of drivetrains for over twenty years. If your "revolutionary" device is truly significant outside of FRC, that takes into account hundreds of times as many engineers for scores of times as long. I hate to break it to you, but someone has almost certainly come up with something very similar if not the same as your design.

In any case, showing us only 30% of the mechanism is no way to display your innovation, real or not. Call it a teaser if you want, but do not use it to parade your supposed superiority when we really do not have any chance to guess at whatever you have CADed.

Finally, in the unlikely event that you actually have come up with something brilliant, you should take heed to RC's comment. Unless you truly believe that you can pull this off during the season, don't. It sucks to have a stationary robot on the field, and this could well cause just that.

I know that I'm going to get some flack (read: negrep) for this post, but I feel like it is spot on. A good designer is not arrogant. In winning designs, egos take a back seat.