How about a REAL teaser? This one will keep you guessing...

[Greg Needel]

ok here is my guess. I think that they are doing 4 drive modules on their bot. The circular plate is the wheel mount/protector. They are showing us the sets for their real robot and practice bot.

[lukevanoort]

Each one of those columns of gear has 4 gears and two dogs... this reminds me of a four speed shift on the fly transmission (think double woburn) that we have in our "If we had more money" engineering notebook. So, maybe a four speed holonomic? Or, if some are for shooters, then maybe they're going to have two parallel pickup/shooting systems.

[Bill Gold]

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

ok here is my guess. I think that they are doing 4 drive modules on their bot. The circular plate is the wheel mount/protector. They are showing us the sets for their real robot and practice bot.

I don't know, man. I know Travis' team pretty well, and they've never had the money to make a practice robot, or even go to a second event the past couple years. I'm not exactly sure why he's posting all these parts, but I can't wait to see what he comes up with this season.

Also, Travis has used a 4-speed transmission the past two seasons, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were using another one this year.

-Bill