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Re: pic: Team 801

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Originally Posted by JaneYoung View Post
How did the popsicle sticks and the push pins evolve into this gripper? It is so fun to watch and so fast. Goodness.
You can use straws and push pins to make pretty effective models of pinned connections for linkages such as this gripper or a jointed arm. At my work, we use them for our "Engineers in Training" workshop's lesson on trusses (where people often accidentally make 4-bar linkages...). I imagine popsicle sticks would work similarly, but are probably a lot stiffer.
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