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Unread 16-01-2017, 16:07
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Um, I smell Motor!
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Re: Robust way to rotate an 18 inch square plate 90 degrees.

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Originally Posted by Monochron View Post
Just my opinion, but you (personally) should become the pneumatic specialist. At a high level I feel that simple pneumatics are a lot easier than simple motors and shafts.
And they are very addictive for a low resource team, more forgiving on the build, and easier to program, and less likely to self destruct when the programmers get a hold of it.

If you use a motor, when you raise it you want to hold it up... so motor runs into a stop, then what.... turn the motor off, does it fall, stall the motor into a hard stop, does the motor burn up... we have been a successful low resource team, we use a lot of pneumatics. We have more resources now.
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