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Re: Robotic Arms

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Originally Posted by elihs View Post
I'm currently in a program at my school called "Senior Year Project," in which we get out of classes during the fourth quarter of our senior year in order to work on a special research project. Since I've been on my city's FRC team (2877 - the LigerBots) for four years and we have never been able to create a really successful robotic arm, I decided I wanted to create a robotic arm.
The point of arms (in my view) is look back to the days when we didn't have electrons to solve our problems had to use real mechanical parts to solve our problems.

This thread provides some great inspiration.
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