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Re: Robonauts 118 - Unveiled '08

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Originally Posted by 2166BlueBotics View Post
Wow, all powered by surgical tubing is it? Im assuming you made some sort of transmission on the winch to allow free spin when you release but how do you keep it from back driving the motor once its "charged"?
That piston you can see in the transmission is pushing some sort of dog-like device into a disk/gear/etc to lock the transmission.
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