pic: LEGO Vernier Gearbox

[Tytus Gerrish]

Originally posted by Kevin A
Why do you need a shifter for lego league? You don't need to push and load or any other robot, so high gear will work fine. It is not worth the motor or whatever actuator you are using to shift, as you could use it for an arm or something.

What is shift-on-the-fly about it? The fact that the gears will mesh because they are plastic? It actually wouldn't shift unless the robot is moving.

If you are just building this for the heck of building building it, then thats awsome, and you should ignore this rant.

Theres always Somone who Just LOVES to stomp on wikid cool ideas and things, I bet you never/Can't Drive a stick can you? The mission mars Is I think a very usefull place for a Shiftable Gearbox, i maen getting to the tasks quickly and then Shifting down to get the toutque you need to complete your tasks and then shifting up again to get back to the base to get started on another task is And will be a distinct advantage