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Re: Butterfly/ octocanum drives

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Originally Posted by hrench View Post
At the time it occurred to me that you could use something equivalent to a starter bendix drive to push-down the translating wheels only when you need to strafe. In a starter bendix, it moves forward to engage your flywheel using the rotation of the motor--Simple, no space-hogging pneumatics on the frame. I have'nt tried it but I'd be interested Yes, a bendix only moves foreward on one rotation, but I think you could use the concept to design a bendix-in-a-bendix and make one that moves down on both rotations.
This sounds quite similar to how the Robowranglers deployed their middle strafe wheel this year.
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