heh, no it's not concrete, i meant the physical bot and the CAD bot. Heh, I gotta watch my terminology or we all might get turned to stone!
AH!
Well, we've made even more progress on our arm today, and I'll post some new pics up tomorrow night (if possile!)
But to answer your questions-
-Yes, the arm can pickup a ground level tetra and above
-The arm does not consume as much air as youd think. 60Psi's worth, but, we are (probably) only powering our arm up, as there is enough pressure on the piston at rest to drop the arm easily. For our application, there should not e a time when we need our piston powered downward.
The arm is also very fast, I would say, she may be one of the faster cappers I've seen this year. She can lift a tetra from ground level in roughly 5-ish seconds (maye less caus I think I tuned down the pressure level to the arm)
Anyway, she's in good shape. I think the thing I'm pleased with most is that everything has practically turned out perfectly from our CAD files, and we are very pleased with the results.
We also like the simple design we conluded on, the KISS priciple is proving to be VERY effective.
Our next step - Lining our wheels with the tread we got from mc-master.
edit:
I just rememered the question I forgot to answer.
Our manipulator is not shown in either picture, but its mainly a bar with a certain spot for the tetra to sit in... (
) and it starts in the up position and locks down at a match start.