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Re: Best Lift Design for Logomotion?

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Originally Posted by Jack Jones View Post
The best I've seen so far is 469's (no surprise there). It weighs next to nothing and goes from the floor to the topmost peg in 0.6 seconds. It will be awesome as soon as they figure a way to control it.
Interesting - I can't wait to see it.

Our elevator could get from bottom to top in less than a second, and we could do it with incredible precision. The problem was the forces generated by all that acceleration get pretty high. We now have it slowed down to about 50% of it's top speed, which is more than fast enough, but the power is there in reserve if it needs it.

I can't wait to see all of the robots this weekend!
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