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Re: Rotating pneumatic actuators
As a Parker manufacturing engineer I can tell you there are lots more to pneumatics than what FIRST allows.
Truthfully, I wish they would allow teams to use the full range of pneumatic equipment out there, But sadly they dont.
Wouldn't it be great to be able to use:
1> Rotory Cylindars
2> Pneumatic motors
3> Cylindars with encoders (feedback cylindars)
4> Electronic pressure controllers
5> Pressure switches (besides the one thats in the kit)
6> Venturi devices
7> Custom (multitube?) tubing
8> Hard tubing
9> Large oriface valves (for quick actuation / dump)
10> Pancake cylindars
And that's just off the top of my head.
If there is one area of robot building that FIRST stifles, it's using pneumatics. That being said, I kinda understand why, as there are less people proficient with pneumatics as there are with mechanical / electrical know how.
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