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Unread 21-03-2004, 20:47
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Re: Help! My robot has a mind of it's own!

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Originally Posted by K0r34nB0y
I just talked to one of our chief mechy's and I guess all of our cylinders are on double acting solenoids.
Another thing of relative interest:
http://www.innovationfirst.com/FIRSTRobotics/
Issue two I already thought of, but havn't yet had the chance to test it. I just got back from my regional last night, so I won't be able to put any of this hardware testing into practice until nationals.
Guys ill give a lil heads up on this issue. I dont know the programming side but i will help you know the stance of the mechanical and electrical side. Our Arm has a "claw" on the end of it which has 2 positions. These are controlled by 2 independent double acting solenoids each on its own pistion. It seems that only one of them are extending at the start of auton and just stays at that position for auton mode. We have no problems with the arm in manual control. As for the issue with the controllers firmware issue, Ricky from IFI said that, that would not be the issue because it occurs during each time our bot went into auton mode.
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