I'm a FIRST alum and am now part of
the robotics club I started at my university. We just started a multi-year project that will hopefully result (many years from now) in making a full-sized vehicle operate autonomously (think DARPA grand challenge).
This semester, we're building a very basic small vehicle to use as our first-phase development platform. The chassis is going to be about 24" x 16" and the total weight of the vehicle/robot should be around 30lbs. We're wanting the vehicle to be able to drive up to about 6 mi/hr. Here's a
very (very, very) rough concept design.
We've been looking for motors and gearboxes for our vehicle and it occurred to me that the ones FIRST gives out in the yearly KOP might work really well. What do you think?
If you think that's a good idea (or if you have other suggestions), any advice on where to purchase from?
Appreciate your advice!
I say we all stop flaming and pointing out what went wrong or what bad calls were made and start pointing out how much fun we all have at the regionals and what FIRST actually has done for us. - burkechrs1 [more] 
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