[EricH]

Originally Posted by alleah2338

Thank you. I will try some of these ideas tomorrow. Our shooter only rotates 180 degrees. We have thought about tying them down with elastic so they can move but still be held tight. Has anyone tried that?

What you can do in that case is: run the wires to the midpoint before tying them down. One of the ends will also do; the midpoint is just to reduce the length of wire you'll have to bundle and pull out of the way. Now, rotate the shooter to the maximum rotation in both directions, using a piece of string to simulate the wire. The most the string pulls out is how long you need your wire to be.

Having something to keep it out of the rotating components is good; try surgical tubing. It's easier to work with than elastic for this type of thing.

The one time my team needed to have wires move with something, it was a lift (with an arm on top, and the arm motors were on the arm), and we simply figured the max length we needed and made a pretty thick cable to run from the top of our base to the top of the lift and looped it into the robot so it hung freely.