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Pumping with pneumatics?
Alright, so I got my haul of pneumatic parts from eBay today. (now if only I could get some hoses that work!)
I was thinking about the operation of the cylinders, and it hit me. If you connect two cylinders at the lower port with one extended, then push on it, the other goes up. So if I were to take, say, two cylinders, connect them at the same ports, stick t-junctions somewhere in between, and put an alternating force on both (as in one is pulled up, the other's pushed down, and it rotates between the two), then I'd have myself a Lego-grade compressor, right?
(On a tangent, I have found out that the small pump is quite possibly the wimpiest thing in all existence. It took about a pump and a smidge on the large pump to get a large cylinder all the way out--on the small pump, it was more like twelve.)
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2007-2009: FRC 1618 (Capital Robotics) - Mentor, Coach
2009-2013: FRC 2815 (Los Pollos Locos) - Mentor, Coach - Palmetto '09, Peachtree '11, Palmetto '11, Palmetto '12
2010: FRC 1398 (Keenan Robo-Raiders) - Mentor - Palmetto '10
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