Thread: What's the coolest (or most complicated) linkage ever used in FRC?
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Re: What's the coolest (or most complicated) linkage ever used in FRC?
190 used a 6-ish-bar mechanism to obtain a "not-quite-rotational" motion to deploy the minibot ramp in 2011. (One of only two minibot ramps to "ship" with a robot in 2011, I believe, even though they were all the rage at champs. The other original ramp belonged to 233.)

Not an arm, but a linkage nontheless, and definitely complicated.

If I find a good video or picture that shows the linkage I'll edit my post to add it, at the moment I haven't found one. It was removed from the robot for the promo video so that we wouldn't give away the ramp idea before our first regional.
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