[Mike Martus]

I know of at least three teams that have been working on gearboxes since the championship last year. I have seen their pro-types that include multi-speed shift on the fly - like an automatic transmission gearbox.

If you search the archives you will see many versions of tramsmissions ready for production when the season starts.

The main problem is that if you do not have a machine shop available and you have to pay for work you will be outside the $$ limitations of FIRST ( I am sure they will keep the $$ limit as it was a good step in the growth of FIRST).

There are many off the shelf units that will work, as long as FIRST allows them this year.

We will know when the game is unveiled and the rules read.