[Veselin Kolev]

On the line of using one mechanism for multiple things, here are a few:

In 2004 Wildstang 111 used their pneumatic lifting drive train to not only get up the six inch steps, but to hang as well. Lots of teams used stuff like this, like 258 and others.

Also, one proposed design during my year with MVRT 115 was to use the motor that drove the hinge on our 2X ball grabbing arm, and through a shift mechanism to engage a winch, to lift the robot onto the hanging bar. I machined it but it was never used.

It seems that most of these PTO situations were during 2004, using a system to hang. Anybody got any other examples of using a mechanism (not necessarily drive train) to do multiple things?