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Originally Posted by Hinkel Y.
Does anyone know any book titles or websites that could teach me how to design a multi-motor gearbox (with or without a tranny)? Like a gearbox design for dummies...
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This may sound corny, but...
In all seriousness, pull up Amazon.com and search for robotics. You'd be amazed. A teammate and I did this once in school and we were like...drooling at all the cool books we wanted to buy. Sad, I know. =)
There IS a book called "Robot Building for Dummies," and there's also an entire series (Robot DNA Series) dedicated to the subject, with one entire book called "Building Robot Drive Trains." I'm not sure if it has much info on gearboxes specifically, but it does have lots of info about which motors to use and how to mount them. (My copy was recently ordered and is now in the mail.
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Don't you love that crazy Canadian Regional?
http://www.firstcanadianregional.org...ces/Workshops/
Howstuffworks.com and the white pages are a good place to start as well. I also suggest getting yourself some legos and playing around with them. You can read as many books as you want, but nothing beats actually putting gears together to get a general idea of how it all works.
Ask other teams. If you're in Atlanta, just drop by a random team's pit and they will probably be more than happy to show you what they did and how they did it. If you're stuck at home like us while everyone else has fun at Nats, look up local teams that may be able to help you.
Books are cool, but I would look into real hands-on experience as well.