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Re: Making Telescopic Arm

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Originally Posted by RyanB View Post
Depending oh how you power the arms something as simple as increasing diameters of PVC pipe can make a telescoping arm. If you look at 2011 robots there are some great examples of vertically extending arms.
We don't even know how to move the segments if we tried that, how would you power it? My thought was pneumatic but we need it shorter thank the full length