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Re: pic: Ponder This

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Originally Posted by The Cyborg
Aw, that would have been a cool design though, but I see that the arm may be a little difficult to do, even for engineers.... Great rendering though! I love the concept!

Now you made me curious at how to get an arm like that to work....
Well there are a lot of difficulties with this design, the four blocks in the corners are for crab steering which would be impossible to program especially for a team with limited programming resources. Another is weight, looking at that picture it would be way over weight. Then comes the length of the arm, the max reach for this design as it is would be about 8ft straight up, which would be much less at capping height. There is also a few redundant things like why is there crab steering and a turret arm, wouldn't one be sufficient.
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