pic: TechnoKat Transmission 2003

[Andy Baker]

Originally posted by sanddrag
That's a 12T? On Matt's transmission it appears to be a 16 from this post. Did you both just go little bit different ways there?

We definitely went different ways. We both started with our design from 2002 (which we put on the internet one year ago)... I made alot of improvements for 2003 for our robot and Matt must've done alot of improvements also.

On that note... if you look at the teams who used our 2002 gearbox, all of them took the published design and improved upon it. Travis Covington of 968 made improvements on it for his team and Paul Copioli of 217 improved it for the Thunderchickens.

Then, there is Paul and Travis of team 48, who put the shifting mechanism as a separate box with just input and output shafts, improving it in a different way.

It was really neat to see what everyone did with this design... how they improved it and made it work for their 'bot. The funny thing about all of this was that none of us talked to each other about it. Travis and I probably compared notes the most, but that was only after he made his design improvements. Paul's job as a designer is to make gearboxes for robot arms, so it's not like he needs advice anyway. Heck, he gave me advice back in 2002 when I was making the first version of this thing.

Andy B.