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Originally Posted by Dillon Compton
Clarification: How do you deploy your platforms from the vertical position they begin in to the horizontal position they are in when actually lifting 'bots? is it just a "let it fall and hope it doesnt break" sort of thing, or is there some other system I'm missing in the pic?
//Dillon Compton
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one the support pieces for the feet stick out completely to the other platform where we have a pneumatic cylinder that shoots through a whole in the rod, and they are pulled apart by a budgie cord, when we retract the pneumatics, the bungee pulls them apart.
and yeah they just fall, but we looked at all of our parts and they don't hit to hard, they are just like big flaps so the air resistance helps out, also nothing is welded together so we don't have to worry about any of it cracking