!Progress

Well, we’ve explored our options. But they don’t work. Both Will and I devised separate systems for transferring the torque from the “gears” (which we are now referring to as the “quote-gears”) to the differential. Both systems were hampered and ultimately made useless by the actual geometry of the pieces. Axles stick out and interfere with perpendicular gears and axles, the “weird-gears” (the gears that are of a different measurement set than the standard ones) are called for in strange situations, making our lives much more difficult, and the chassis frame is completely non-static. We have redesigned it several times, and each time find new problems.
We’re stopping work for the day, as I have to go into work and Will has to leave. Hopefully when we meet next, we will have some new ideas for how to fix this. For the moment, though, we haven’t really made any significant progress beyond discovering things that don’t work. Which I suppose is a type of progress, but it’s still disappointing.