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Re: 1208 after week one.

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Originally Posted by BJC View Post
How will it sit within the starting perameters with a claw/grabber attached to it?
What do you mean, claw/grabber?

Kidding. We designed the Arm specifically to be longer than it was needed, so we can get the optimum height out of it, we plan on cutting off at least around 6" to fit our grabber. The reason it is banging up and down is there is extra weight on the arm that is mimicking the worst case weight of our grabber, the real one will not weigh as much and it is much more controllable.

Most of the weight will normally be towards the front of the robot, as that is where our arm/grabber is. In the end we are shooting for dead center for weight distribution.
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