I've been looking at many of the robot pictures that have been posted at CHIEF DELPHI and noticed that many teams had arms as a medium of stacking tetras. I would like to know some of the torque your team expected to come across wiht your robot's arm, the motor(s) you used for the arm, and the gear reductions you did for the arm. Here's a
picture of TEAM 696's shoulder joint. We expected max of 265.5 in-lbs of torque on the joint...with a 1 to 20 reduction of the VAN DOR motor...we were able to do this. Our elbow also went through a 1 to 20 reduction with the globe motor with an anticipated max torque of 219 in-lbs.
I KNOW U LOVE OUR ROBOT:
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SEE US AT THE LOS ANGELES REGIONALS!!!!!!!!! GO TEAM 696