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Re: Pneumatic Gear Shifter
You might not necessarily even have to buy a pair of supershifters if you're seriously interested in designing your own. I must preface this with this suggestion only working if you have some previous designs of your own and are looking for some advice. If you've made some solid progress and research, you can "accelerate" your design process by buying one supershifter, taking it apart, putting it back together, taking it apart again, cadding each piece (yes this includes making CAD of gears), assembling it in your CAD package, then transferring what you've learned to your own design. It will probably end up looking somewhat similar to a supershifter, but you can make design changes along the way. This is what a lot of teams, us included, do for developing Swerve drive, but it transfers across to anything that can be bought COTs.
In short, don't reinvent the wheel when you can buy it and give it a paint job and some new rims.
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