[DougHogg]

I am wondering if any of this could be applied to our robot for post season competitions.

We are using the 2 CIM motors with custom non-shifting gear boxes and chains going to 2 set of wheels. We shift to high gear by lowering 4 large wheels and raising the 4 small ones.

We have one motor that we aren't using in our drive train or one of our 3 arms: a drill motor.

I had thought of using it like a rocket booster. I guess we could change the gears on our wheels so our CIM motors would give us higher speeds and then use the drill motor as a low speed pusher that would rachet at high speed. Alternately, we could use the drill motor as a booster for high speed and "not lean on it" at low speed. I personally don't have the experience/knowledge to design it. Also it seems tough to stick something like that into an existing robot. However any ideas would be appreciated.

(There are pictures of our robot and our drive train on our web site as listed below.)