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Looks really cool, is it two arms? I am thinking elevator style arm being pulled from a pulley wheel? How much does it weigh?

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Only one arm and it weighs too much =(. 118.5 without electronics and pnumatic tubing. We're going to need to save a lot of weight somewhere.....

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Better get that drill going. :p

In all seriousness, do you really need two Fisher-Price motors on that winch? I can't imagine that you'd need that much power, and removing one would be a lot easier than putting several thousand holes into your bot.

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Most likely we will need it to overcome the binding from all the cantilevering we're doing. It's also a lot easier to make cheeseholes then to design a mount for the spool without a second motor. The red plate on the bottom is 1/8th inch Al. I'm thinkin we can probably get a good chunk of weight out of that. Plus we're going to cut out a cross bar on the chassis that is redundent.

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is it just one arm going up the 2 arms? this is very stable as opposed to a 1 armed approach?
or is the second arm going to "flip" onto the top of the other arm to make it uper long and high enough for the central goal?

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It is one very stable arm. The thing is rigid enough that at full extension i can tilt the robot up from its side just by grabbing on to the end of the 11ish foot arm. When I do this, the arm bends maybe 2 inches.