What Powers Your Arm?

[Stephen P]

What (primarily) Powers your arm?

[M. Hicken]

We have the dreaded double jointed arm, the shoulder- a highly geared down CIM, and the elbow is a window motor, geared down via small-->large sprockets

HTH

Marcus

[BoyWithCape195]

You seemed to have forgotten the FP....

[Yan Wang]

And Homer Simpson in a box.

[Stephen P]

You seemed to have forgotten the FP....

oops... I don't think I can edit the poll itself...I guess that'll be the "other"
my bad
As for my bot, we gotta sliding door motor on a 1:6 chain reduction

In all seriousness, do you think FIRST would allow having a hamster wheel as a decorative object? Do they specifically ban any living organisms present on the bot?

[Yan Wang]

The rules flowchart for power sources specifically states "gerbil".

See: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24536&highlight=gerbil

[probizzle]

You forgot >1 hamsters.

we have a planetary gearbox on the arm powered by (specially cloned) hamsters that run the planets (instead of powering the sun). The ring is another hamster. Max torque && max speed. That thing will fly!!

I wonder if there is a limit to how many hamsters we can use....
:D

[roboguy #1]

Really I woudl love to use a hamster or "gerbil" bu $@#$@#$@#$@# one of the worm geared motors were using.

[jgannon]

Van door, Fisher Price, and Nippon-Denso.

[Conor Ryan]

forget hamsters, use potatoes!

[pakrat]

You might also want to have the option, Which arm... Some teams have more than one. :D :D

[Bcahn836]

We are using pnuematics and "Other" you will just have out what it is at the NASA Goddard Play Day in D.C.

[Zippiot]

the sliding door motor moves the arm up and down while the window motor rotates the end, also i think there is another motor in there somewhere, i didn't design the thing and i have no idea what it happening with it (even though I'm the one building it!).

[Rocketboy]

We use FPs with a worm gear and a custom gearbox for reduction.