[Travis Covington]

I have told this to those who asked me similar questions in person, and I will go ahead and say this to everyone interested.

If this were not Kirk and my senior project, there is no way we would have taken on this much work for this much (little) weight savings. While 2+ lbs per transmission is significant, the 500+ hours that went into getting these made was most definitely not worth it. For us, we were killing two birds with one stone, which made sense. We would have had to put in a similar amount of time doing a senior project totally unrelated to FIRST, so why not spend that time on the robot?

Bottom-line, for a FIRST robot, this is beyond overkill. Next year we will be designing everything around what andymark already makes and sells for a ridiculously low price. A few of his gears with our own sideplates and shafts, and I am a happy camper. Time and resources are spent much better elsewhere, take my word for it.