[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by boarder3512

Here is a quick video that shows my team's deployment system.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTh59TiHde4

We still need to cut a channel in the Plexiglass for the pole and we need to figure out how the minibot will attach to the plate, but the core of the system is there. We used a pneumatic cylinder and a 4-joint scissor lift with the sliders. The mechanism goes from 0 (totally inside the robot's perimeter) to 22 inches (touching the pole) in about 1.4 seconds. The maximum extension, like I said, is 22 inches, which gives us some space for the channel and for alignment error.

Looks very good, guys. I know that drawer slide set from Amerock. 3#10oz and very sturdy. We're trying pneumatic actuation too with a two-arm linkage. that's quite a pile of washers you've got on the end there!