Being a team that never settles, we will continue to evolve or mini-bot until the last day of the season. Now it's time to try some more of those innovative ideas...
Unfortunately, some ideas might put a little more stress on the poor Tetrix motors than we like...and at $30 a pop...it gets expensive.
Before I go further I want to clearly say I KNOW THIS ISN'T LEGAL FOR COMPETITION.
What I want to do is find some alternative motors that have similar characteristics as the Tetrix motors for for a realistic price (i.e. $1-$5 or less which is about what they are worth retail...). We could then use these for R&D and then when we are finally ready to test with real Tetrix motors, we switch... I'm probably going to do the same with the Tetrix batteries...
So...before I start digging...has anybody already looked into this? We might even be able to find the exact motor somewhere else wholesale without the gearbox and the $20 Tetrix sticker...
For example, I'll start at the easy places:
http://www.robotmarketplace.com/prod..._ungeared.html
http://www.goldmine-elec-products.co....asp?dept=1104
According to a 6 year old I once met at a demo, our FRC machine was not a robot because, "How can it be a robot if it doesn't have a face?" - Jared Russell [more] 
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