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Originally Posted by F22Rapture
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It's hard to tell, exactly, from the photos what the rest of the mechanism looks like, but it does appear that you have high speed rotating equipment exposed. It also looks like it should be relatively easy to put a thin layer of polycarbonate around the exposed part of the wheels.
I'd also like to recast your final sentence... "fortunately it looks like it will be relatively easy to improve our shooter's safety". I know you don't really consider it unfortunate that your robot should be as safe as reasonably possible.
And I think that's what I'd be looking for... FRC robots are large, powerful machines. There is an inherent danger in working on and around devices such as these. It would be impossible to remove all risk from a shooter... I think what we all want to do is reduce the risk as much as possible. Having a needlessly dangerous machine is not particularly good engineering practice.
Jason