View Single Post
  #15   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 13-12-2011, 21:26
Chexposito's Avatar
Chexposito Chexposito is offline
Registered User
AKA: Expo
FRC #1730
Team Role: Alumni
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Rookie Year: 2007
Location: Missouri
Posts: 272
Chexposito is a glorious beacon of lightChexposito is a glorious beacon of lightChexposito is a glorious beacon of lightChexposito is a glorious beacon of lightChexposito is a glorious beacon of lightChexposito is a glorious beacon of light
Re: Anyone tried a slip ring?

Quote:
Originally Posted by 1986titans View Post
We had planned on using slip rings in our 2010 robot before they were deemed illegal.

They weren't all that necessary anyways; our coding was set up to automatically untwist the wires if they got wrapped up too much from turning (three revolutions, I think). Here's a video of it in action. I think you can see it "correcting" itself at 2:12.
ditto