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I'd argue that this project has a lot larger benefit than just smoother shifting. Dog and ball shifting were both adapted for FRC by teams using them in projects like this. And then brought to a larger market by companies like vex pro and Andymark. I could definitely see something like this catching on in the larger FRC community once to difficulty to manufacture comes down. I could think of a lot of situations where this would be more desirable than a dog shifting mechanism. And I'd argue that just the exercise of attempting something complicated and gaining engineering knowledge from it is kind of the point of FRC. Some of the most rewarding projects I've worked on have been ones where the mentors and students were both learning from them.

So my hats off to all those involved at 971. On another note I was wondering what ratios you guys geared this box for? Also what material were the clutch pads made of?