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Cool In the spirit of Gracious Professionalism, I give you: My MultiDrive.

That's right folks. I had a nice long think time about this, and I decided I shall share my design with everyone here on CD.
Here's What I plan on uploading:
A 7 Picture set of 3D Concept Images
A 3DS version of the concept model
My descriptive paper (which needs updating)

And I plan to answer any questions you have. I know my design will be criticized, many people will say (That won't work right...You stole my idea, etc.)
Just so you know I didn't steal anything (If you DO believe me)
Here's the "History" of the design:
It started a little bit before Nats of this season. After we had finished our Regional, I began coming up with all sorts of neat little do-dads (see my CopyCat Code, for example)
But I felt like I hadn't really designed anything in a while.
Well, I looked around to see what people conventionally did for crab drives, and I said I wanted to raise the bar a bit.
Thus, the MultiDrive is born.
This drive functions as a 4 in 1 drive system. The slogan I prefer to use is "Drive on Demand"
Here's a few things that differ from typical crab drives:
-Only 2 drive motors
-Two sets of wheels Pivot
-Use of Beveled or Miter Gears
-Can instantly switch between 4 different modes of drive
-Has several backup plans in case things break,strip, etc.

Anyway, I'll re-post here once the pictures/files are uploaded.
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