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Re: pic: Robot-Week1

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Originally Posted by RyanB View Post
I have a question about the tabs sticking out from the hopper, are they to "grab" balls of to sort the out as in a peg board, so they dont get jammed. or if both ideas are wrong what is thier purpose. I like were the direction of the robot is going. Also what kind of rope/ tubeing are you using for the conveyor.
Those are actually just cleco's (spelling?), holding the hopper together until we rivet it all tight. Hehe.

Some 1" surgical tubing from McMaster has been ordered... We've used it with success.



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Originally Posted by Woody1458 View Post
I would suggest putting some kind of large pipe on those thin rods because what ever you use as belting will grip more onto a larger surface and it won't slip on the balls (This breaks the basic idea that surface area doesn't effect friction because the surfaces actually aren't parallel so each point has a separate force, kinda weird but ya)
Planning on it... If we had everything done in the picture what would we do with the other 5 weeks! (plus 40 pounds to build whatever we want for 3 weeks after that... stupid new rule)

But, we've been joking that I'd post another picture like this after week 5 and it would just show a crate and an empty shop... We all know that won't happen though
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