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Gearboxes and emotions
Posted by Andy Baker at 2/12/2001 1:40 PM EST


Engineer on team #45, TechnoKats, from Kokomo High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.


In Reply to: it gets worse
Posted by Ken Patton on 2/12/2001 12:20 PM EST:



Yes, we went through a few gearboxes, but not too many. I cannot remember more than two. I credit Jeff Burch for a conservatively-written piece of software that did not take any risks.

On the other hand, during the initial stages of this design, many people on our team were passionately emotional about whether or not we should do this. It was a big risk, we argued about it for a long time. The '99 Motorola Regional was tough for us. We blew a gearbox and some of us were ready to pitch the gear switching mechanism.

We stuck to it and finally got it to work consistently. This design is paying off for us and many other teams. I have not kept count of the number of teams who have contacted me about this design, but I expect to see more than 15 different teams using our gear shifting design from '00.

Sure, we are "giving away" this design. Seeing teams succeed with it will be a definite reward for us, sure, but also for FIRST in general. Upping the level of competition is good for us all. I think that we all enjoy seeing what each other come up with and there is a lot of informal "sharing" of ideas.

I think that this should happen more. It would be nice for teams who have minimal resources to be able to use other teams' past year's designs.

As for this year, we've got some trade secrets... but don't we all?

Andy B.



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