paper: JVN's Mechanical Design Calculator 2016

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Originally Posted by Karthik

Just wanted to bring this resource everyone's attention. I've had a lot of teams contacting me this year asking for help on selecting gear ratios and motors for drivetrains, intakes, and hangers. The easiest way to walk teams through these calculations is the JVN calculator. It has tabs set up for commonly used gearboxes, rotary mechanisms, linear mechanisms, and much more. It also has motor specs for many of the commonly used FRC motors pre-loaded. I highly recommend that all teams take it for a spin. It's a huge time saver and a great educational tool.

It's such a fantastic cheat code. I assume the existence of the calculator is JVN's property so it shouldn't get re-hosted where he wouldn't want it... but that being said, I wish that if I could pick one resource to put on any and all FIRST related websites, any tangential email blast, write in the sky, etc., it would be this.

I am not an engineer or studying for a career in engineering but this tool has unlocked a lot of doors for me and my team.