[pakrat]

we made one with ribbons last year, it worked okay, but not stellar, i think it could work well if tweaked a bit.

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basically, the red atuff is a ribbon, and when you pull down on A, B goes up

Discalaimer: this arm is not fool proof, and you need both heavyduty ribbon and some pretty good gearing/motors for it!!